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->''"Excellent job! Now to restructure the banking system so that we will be able to rob the shirts off of poor people... Uh, I mean, to invest prudently and generate wealth that will trickle down."''-->-- '''Antonio Lopez''', ''VideoGame/{{Tropico}}'' ''4''

A senior manager, CEO or owner of a major definitely-for-profit corporation who is out to make as much [[{{Greed}} money]] and gain as much power as possible, by any means available, regardless of who suffers. To that end, they are perfectly willing to violate business or social ethics, commit crimes (ranging from fraudulent accounting to mass murder), and [[GreenAesop devastate Mother Nature]] and human communities, justifying those actions under the name of "just business". They are confident that all they have to do is [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney spread enough money around to get their way or avoid punishment,]] and are very likely to cross the MoralEventHorizon and/or become TheUnfettered in their search for profit. They are also very, very likely to be White (or Asian) and male, like [=CEOs=] in real life.

Expect to find them at the head of an enormous boardroom table on the top floor of an EvilTowerOfOminousness. He may be a BadBoss, but ''not'' always. A few of them can actually be very decent employers, with employees who are completely in the dark about their underhanded plans. If so, the public [[VillainWithGoodPublicity is often just as much in the dark.]] Naturally, this sort of villain tends to have an AmoralAttorney (or several) on his payroll, in case he does slip up, and a small stormtrooper army of "[[{{Mooks}} security personnel]]" who have carte blanche to commit any number and kind of violent crimes to get a good performance evaluation from the boss. If those resources fail, [[EveryManHasHisPrice he often uses money to "buy" or even "own" officials.]]

They usually [[FridgeLogic fail to consider]] the [[DidntThinkThisThrough full effects of their plan]], or the fact that [[CutLexLuthorACheck they can make more by going legit]], and at times the plan [[MissingStepsPlan seems to have no concrete way of creating wealth.]] Usually, they remain in business thanks to OffscreenVillainDarkMatter.

Though there are earlier examples, the modern Corrupt Corporate Executive had (until relatively recently) a distinctly TheEighties feel, which made him seem progressively more out of place as those affectations become less mainstream. Earlier Corrupt Corporate Executives tended to be far less stylized and distinct from other "smooth" villain types (often with a healthy streak of Blofeld). However, over the past decade countless high profile real life cases of corporate corruption have arguably diminished the 80s feel of the character and made the Corrupt Corporate Executive a very modern villain.

A well-known variation of the CCE, which is popular in {{dystopia}}n and CyberPunk fiction, is the CEO or President of a [[MegaCorp megacorporation]] that [[AcmeProducts produces and]] controls everything [[LawEnforcementInc (even the authorities)]] and is the de facto ruler of the world.

Another variation of the CCE is the Robber Baron, a pre-80s, industrial revolution era manifestation that retains all of the CCE's cosmopolitan, far-reaching financial and political power, with perhaps even less governmental or media constraints to consider. Joseph Pulitzer, from the movie ''Film/{{Newsies}}'', is a perfect example of this subtrope. The Robber Baron will have a different wardrobe and jargon than the 80s CCE, as appropriate to his setting, but is otherwise indistinguishable.

Another variation on the CCE, found mostly in WalkingTheEarth series, is basically a CorruptHick with a business. The "corporations" they represent are not major multinational conglomerates, but small businesses like trucking companies, hotels, or other "mom and pop" ventures that simply want their competitors out of action. They tend to have little power outside of a single town or county, but can usually amass a small army of redneckish goons and threaten violence with impunity by virtue of paying off local law enforcement and/or the judiciary. This flavor of Corrupt Corporate Executive favors harassing a competing store owned by [[WastelandElder a kindly old man]]/woman and/or their family.

This is one of the inevitable progressions that any {{ambitio|nIsEvil}}us character will end in. See Also ThereAreNoGoodExecutives and MorallyBankruptBanker. Occasionally, the CCE will be the producer of an ImmoralRealityShow.

Compare GreedyJew and PointyHairedBoss. Contrast HonestCorporateExecutive, the CCE's natural enemy. And remember that (1) EvenEvilHasStandards, and (2) EvenEvilHasLovedOnes, especially in a WhatYouAreInTheDark situation.

Sadly, this too is TruthInTelevision. Be that as it may, NoRealLifeExamplesPlease.

[[folder:Anime & Manga]]* ''Manga/ShugoChara'': While the show is "extraordinarily" supportive of [[ToBeAMaster large amounts of ambition,]] both [[ShroudedInMyth Gozen]] and his "director", Kazamu Hoshina, both definitely count for this, although, unlike most examples, they are not motivated by money: Gozen just asks for the Embryo, and Kazamu does as he says. However, while an all - being source of infinite powers in the "care" of a couple of bastards may be a very annoying thing indeed, it's what 'makes' them bastards that throw them straight to this trope: Their methods. Their worst crime would be breaking or corrupting horrifically large amounts of Heart's Eggs, thus stopping the dreams of what would probably be hundreds of children, in order to get the Embryo. As for [[spoiler: Kazamu's foolishness while attempting to give Gozen, A.K.A. Hikaru Ichinomiya, his grandson, easter's C.E.O. position, due both towards a distaste of the (Would be forced.) former proposed heir towards the easter heritage, Aruto, partly due towards his (Acheived.) dream of playing his violin, and due towards him emigrating, alone, within order towards avoiding running that company, and an action asking to use a "fitting" heir for easter: Blackmailing throughout violence Souko, Aruto's former wife, towards marrying him, thus giving him parental authority of both Aruto and Souko's children: Ikuto and Utau]]* Extensively referenced in the CyberPunk series ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis'', where not only are GENOM's executives corrupt, but also controlling both the police and local government via a GovernmentConspiracy.* At first glance, the Yotsuba Group in ''Manga/DeathNote'' appeared to be a group of ruthless businessmen who were willing to turn anything towards gaining money. When one of them gained access to the eponymous ArtifactOfDoom, they used it to selectively kill off their rivals in order to increase their profit margins. As L and Light's investigation went on, it was revealed that only ''one'' of them was willing to go so far. The others were just there because their lives had been threatened by the holder of the eponymous note.* From ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'':** Sakyou and the Black Black Club. Gambling on the torture and destruction of demons, and organizing a tournament for this reason, just to earn more money... these people DEFINE "corrupt".** There is also the Dark Tournament Committee, who are easily bribed to impose increasingly absurd restrictions on the heroes during their fight with Team Masho.* ''Anime/YuGiOh'':** Gozaburo Kaiba and the Big Five. Gozaburo [[TrainingFromHell put Seto Kaiba through hell]] to mold him into his idea of the proper replacement for him and had no qualms with manufacturing and selling weapons to anyone for the right price. The Big Five, meanwhile, made plenty of deals behind Kaiba's back after he gained control of the company and reinvented it as a gaming distributor, including ''kidnapping Kaiba's own brother'', in order to oust him as chairman and revert the company to its former warmongering ways.** Kaiba himself. While not as bad as his father, he still abuses his wealth and power for everything it's worth, blocking players he doesn't like from tournaments, refusing to call a halt to the proceedings after several of his players are hospitalised, and taking over companies by threatening their employees. He's even worse in the manga where he has dealings with the mafia and sets up a colossal theme park designed to kill the guests (Well, more specifically to kill Yugi and his friends, but still). (He gets better, though.)--->'''Kaiba:''' Am I supposed to be scared to attack?\\'''[[FillerVillain Dartz:]]''' Well, only if destroying an innocent soul concerns you...\\'''Kaiba:''' Nah. As the president of a major corporation, I have to do that every day.** Pegasus fits this as well, using his power as the head of Industrial Illusions and host of the Duelist Kingdom tournament for all its worth.** Dartz, the main antagonist of the anime-only Doma arc, is the head of the Paradius corporation, a multinational conglomerate that dwarfs Kaiba's company. The whole group is a front for resurrecting an evil, soul-devouring god, and some of the company's activities include running a private prison for children and funding civil wars in other countries.** Manjyome's two brothers from ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' probably count (although, as Kaiba himself says, they're [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain clearly not very good at it]]).* From ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'':** Nergal Heavy Industries in general, with the exception of people on the ship from the start. [[PropheticName With a name like that...]]** Their rivals, the Crimson Group, are even worse, financing the terrorist coup in the movie.* Sir Isaac Ray Peram Westcott in ''LightNovel/DateALive'' Light Novel and its anime adaptation. He is the Managing Director of Deus.Ex.Machina Industries. On one hand, he was the one who invented the Realizers. On the other hand, he wants to seek and harness all of Spirit powers so he can plunge the whole world in chaos and destruction.* Ajo from ''Anime/KeyTheMetalIdol''. When he wasn't busy traveling to foreign countries to sell them illegal weapons, he was murdering people who got in his way ([[AnyoneCanDie no matter how much the audience may like them]]), kidnapping homeless people to extract their gel [[spoiler:(and robbing them of their humanity in the process)]], extorting people, abusing women, or, in the end, [[spoiler:building a giant reactor to steal the essence from 50,000 people at a concert.]] All apparently to fuel his robot fetish.* In ''Anime/{{Witchblade}}'' Wadou of the Douji Group is quite willing to backstab a colleague, risk his corporation's image or abuse his position to work with mad partner from NSWF toward personal goals while endangering bystanders knowingly and by negligence. For contrast, Reiji Takayama (as well as his old staff) in the same Douji Group, despite his [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman occasional blunders]], is responsible and becomes SilentScapegoat to save his company's reputation.* The Gowa family and Symbol from ''Anime/{{Gasaraki}}''. Kazukiyo Gowa is pretty goddamned corrupt, from using hollowed out demons to develop mecha, resulting in his brother's death, his adopted brother's borderline slavery to the family and nearly killing his sister for a new demon, to taking part in a coup that will result in either Japan being left completely bankrupt, or Japan and America both completely bankrupt, only to get a hold of the entire county's financial Data, so he can restart the stockmarket with his hands holding all the cards.* Satoru Kanzaki of ''Manga/{{Area 88}}'' becomes one of these after he takes over Yamato Airlines. Among other things, he was instrumental in adopting a very shoddily built new airliner.* The Siberian Railroad from ''Anime/OvermanKingGainer'' uses the monopoly they have to overcharge people on everything, and since the only way to get anything is to use the Siberian Railroad they can do whatever they want.* ''Anime/PokemonZoroarkMasterOfIllusions'': Grings Kodai. He's the founder and owner of his extremely successful company. He will also go down in history as one of the nastiest pieces of work in Pokemon history. There are no lows he won't sink to in order to get what he wants, including blackmail, lying to a city, kidnapping, and [[spoiler:threatening to ''murder a baby Pokemon '''directly in front of its mother!''''']] He'll also go down in Pokemon history as having one of the most satisfying HumiliationConga ever given.* In ''Manga/MensLove'', many of the characters are portrayed as [[GreyAndGreyMorality morally flexible]] in the interests of business, but Daigo's father definitely wanders into this trope when he bribes Kaoru to break up with Daigo and failing that threatens to expose his sexual orientation so that Daigo can make a [[ArrangedMarriage marriage]] that's advantageous to the company.* Oyama from the [[AlternateContinuity 2009 TV special]] of ''Manga/KimbaTheWhiteLion''. He isn't into money so much as he is into [[AGodIAm playing God with animals]].* ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' has [[FourEyesZeroSoul Takeda Kanryu]], who participates in shady businesses (opium and weapon trade) and won't hesitate to have people slaughtered if it will allow him to continue making money. The live action movie expands on this, showing him snub his nose at the authorities whenever they try question him. * [[spoiler:Albert Maverick]] from ''Anime/TigerAndBunny''. He's willing to [[spoiler:make deals with crime syndicates, murder people who know too much, and mess with a child's mind to make a new popular hero]] ''just to keep ratings up''. Oh, and did we mention that [[spoiler:said child was the son of two of his victims, and another victim worked as his caretaker?]] Made even worse by how [[spoiler:he has NEXT powers too... in which he can [[FakeMemories rewrite people's memories.]] And he ''very'' much uses them.]]* ''Anime/VariableGeo'': [[spoiler: [[BigBad Miranda]]]] [[TheDisembodied Jahana]] is the driving force behind [[NebulousEvilOrganization The Jahana Group's]] activities, with [[TheDragon Damian]] as her most loyal subordinate. Once they learn of [[MinorLivingAlone Satomi's]] latent fighting potential, [[spoiler: Miranda]] has him manipulate her into entering the VG tournament, so she could use Satomi as her [[BodySurf new vessel.]]* ''Anime/PhantomQuestCorp'': Not only is [[HandsomeLech Mr. Nagasuki]] screwing [[SexySecretary his secretary]] on the job, he abuses his position as the museum's curator to try to coerce his employee, Natsuki, [[SexualExtortion to sleep with him.]] Plus, he was later found guilty of embezzling funds from the museum, so the blank check he had paid [[TheProtagonist Ayaka]] with, was worthless.* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' featured Gato, head of Gato Company, in the first major story arc. His company's shipments allowed him to mask his trade in all manner of illicit goods. For unspecified reasons he decided to take over all shipping lanes from the Land of Waves, preventing the island nation from carrying out any of the standard trade and driving it into poverty. Gato went one step further by purposefully targeting anybody who gave the people hope and eliminating them in public and gruesome manners. * Hades Vandein, the BigBad of ''Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce'' and general manager of the Vandein Corporation. He's the main instigator of the Eclipse incident and the reason why there are [[ViralTransformation Infected]] running around TheMultiverse blowing various towns up, as well as various labs filled with the bloody and fatal results of human experimentation. It's all part of the R&D his company is doing on the Eclipse virus as it'll bring huge profits to his company once they refine the technological advances related to it. After all...--> '''Hades Vandein''': It's not unusual for bloodshed and lawsuits to happen over the development and monopolizing of new technologies. * Ragyo Kiryuin from ''Anime/KillLaKill'', ''dear God,'' Let's count what this woman has managed to get way with... ** Helping a MagicMeteor eat random people off the street due to having a global monopoly on clothing.** Making clothing that installs a custom WeirdnessCensor in anyone without built-up immunity (or nudism).** [[PedoHunt Blatant sexual abuse]] of ''[[spoiler: both]]'' her daughter[[spoiler:s]]** ''And'' attempting to allow an entire stadium full of innocent men, women, and children to be consumed by alien lifeforms* ''Anime/KirbyOfTheStars'' brings us the evil GalacticConqueror Nightmare. He is the owner of [[MegaCorp Holy Nightmare Corporation]] (Nightmare Enterprises in the dub), a company that literally '''rules the entire universe'''. No, that isn't an exaggeration or a joke, it's exactly what happens.* ''Anime/IdolDensetsuEriko'': Eriko's uncle Yuusuke, once he gets control of his deceased brother's entertaiment company, sees Eriko as a potential cash cow, and once she decides to work with her father's best friend instead, tries to destroy her career. He's basically the anime version of [[WesternAnimation/{{Jem}} Eric Raymond]], but perhaps ''even worse''.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Comic Books]]* ''Franchise/TheDCU'':** Originally a MadScientist, ComicBook/LexLuthor became a corrupt exec in the late 1980s; most TV versions of this character followed suit. ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' notably hybridized this by implying that Luthor built his company through [[OmnidisciplinaryScientist developing his]] [[GadgeteerGenius own inventions]].*** In his appearances on ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', wherein he discovers that he is dying from radiation poisoning from prolonged exposure to kryptonite, Luthor returns to his MadScientist role as he snaps and acquires a power suit to take the fight directly to Superman, whom he blames for his condition. Later, Luthor is cured of his disease, pardoned for his crimes as a supervillain, and in ''Justice League Unlimited'' becomes a [[PresidentEvil corrupt]] ''[[PresidentEvil politician]]'' as a cover for his true plan.*** As well as Franchise/{{Superman}}, Luthor has a hate on for Franchise/{{Batman}} and [[SecretIdentity Bruce Wayne]] ''independently'' due to being a corrupt exec. [=LexCorp=]'s main rival for several years of Creator/DCComics continuity has been stated to be [=WayneTech=], Bruce Wayne's company, and Batman has taken some glee in foiling Luthor's schemes as a superhero and as a business competitor. In fact, not only did he and Superman engineer Luthor's end as president of the United States, Bruce Wayne bought his company headquarters out from under him.** In ''Comicbook/KryptonNoMore'', Superman meets Morton Kalmbach, seedy president of Metro Chemical (a factory that makes vinyl chloride, a known carcinogen). He admits that his factory is unsafe to work in and several workers have gotten sick from cancer, but he considers that it is a "socially acceptable risk".** Maxwell Lord, who helped form the Justice League International, tends to zigzag between being merely an amoral con artist, and being an outright villain. ** Then there's Morgan Edge, who owned a rival news corporation to the Daily Planet and turned out to be an Intergang pawn. ** In ''Comicbook/KryptoniteNevermore'' Superman meets Boysie Harker, a tycoon that owns a island where a volcano is about to erupt and who shoots at his employees when they try to run away.-->'''Mr. Harker:''' Name's Boysie Harker! I own this bay — and that island yonder!\\'''Superman:''' Does that give you the right to shoot unarmed men?\\'''Mr. Harker:''' That's exactly what it gives me! Those people are under contract to work my plantation... and I aim to enforce those contracts — even if I have to kill a few of the lazy louts!** ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' tangles with these time to time, usually to counterpoint his comparative honesty as corporate exec Bruce Wayne. Let's see... there was Black Mask, Roland Daggett and Ferris Boyle from the DCAU, sometimes Simon Stagg (more commonly known as Metamorpho's archenemy)... the list goes on.*** Batman's StarterVillain, Alfred Stryker, was a businessman willing to murder his partners to take full control of the company.** ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'' has his EvilCounterpart Komodo. As Simon Lacroix, he was a business rival of Oliver Queen, and used illegal and underhanded tactics to discredit him and buy up his company for a fraction of its value. * ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'':** Both ComicBook/TheKingpin and Deathwatch are New York crime bosses and the heads of major corporations.** The classic Marvel Universe version is the Roxxon Energy Corporation, a corporation whose management is perfectly willing, even eager, to use any underhanded and/or criminal tactics to secure its profits. While all the superheroes are ready to fight them, ComicBook/IronMan is particularly enthusiastic since their antics make his own company look bad. Their current CEO, Dario Agger, is a recurring [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor antagonist]] who runs the place like a nation state / religion, is working with Dark Elves so he can invade other ''planets'' for their oil, and occasionally turns into a minotaur.** ''ComicBook/Thor2014'' includes both Agger and several other supervillain [=CEOs=], including the latest version of the Silver Samurai - a literal CorporateSamurai whose smartphone transforms into some kind of liquid metal PoweredArmor. ** Marvel had an actual criminal organization called The Corporation at one point, although, in something of a reversal, they ''started'' as a villainous organization (Hydra) that reorganized itself along business company lines (including things such as insurance packages for its members!)** Hexus, the Living Corporation, although that happened to an alien HiveMind that drew its power from people's obsession with its products.** ''ComicBook/IronMan'' has a couple of these. One is Obadiah Stane, a literal [[TheChessmaster chessmaster]] whose EvilPlan caused Tony Stark to develop a drinking problem, allowing Stane to buy Stark International out from under him. Justin Hammer, another one of Stark's business rivals, commonly hires {{supervillain}}s to carry out acts of intimidation and sabotage against his competitors. Hammer took control of Stane International after the latter's [[DrivenToSuicide death]], and years later sold it back to Stark for one dollar (which led to Stark having to clean up all of Stane International's shady dealings) Such tactics usually have Stark responding by donning the Iron Man armor to defend his own holdings.*** Hammer's daughter, Justine Hammer, also becomes one when she takes over the company.** Walter Declun took over ''ComicBook/DamageControl'', a company that specializes in cleaning up after superhero/supervillain fights. In order to increase profits, Declun manipulated supervillains to cause as much damage as possible and gave some of them mutant growth hormone to increase their powers. This indirectly led to the Stamford incident, which in turn led to the infamous ''Comicbook/CivilWar'' story arc.** Franchise/SpiderMan's archenemy ComicBook/NormanOsborn has been presented as one of these since day one when he arranged for one of his scientists to be thrown in jail for embezzlement to gain access to the formula that'd make him the Green Goblin--and ever since his return, he's gotten worse.** Comicbook/DoctorStrange goes up against one of these in ''Doctor Strange: The Oath'' when he discovers a magical elixir that can cure all diseases. Though they insist they are WithholdingTheCure so that humanity can [[TheWorldIsNotReady make discoveries at its own pace]], it is all too clear they are only interested in their profit margin.** Creator/GarthEnnis' ''ComicBook/ThePunisherTheEnd'' depicts corrupt executives as being responsible for ''the end of the world''.* Many members of The Trust from ''ComicBook/OneHundredBullets'' fit this trope.* In ''ComicBook/DarkwingDuck'', we have the mysterious CEO of Quackwerks, [[spoiler:Taurus Bulba]], whose main goal was [[spoiler:to find the new code to activate and control the Gizmoduck armor.]]* In ''ComicBook/DeepGravity'', it turns out that the damage to the freighter ''Vanguard'' was deliberately caused by [[spoiler:Drummond, the efficiency guy from the corporation which owns it]], due to having been paid off by a rival corporation.* While he is sometimes portrayed as [[UnclePennybags the exact opposite]], [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Scrooge McDuck]] is typically this trope, especially in the Italian Disney comics. Notably, in ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'', his StartOfDarkness is seen, turning him from the HonestCorporateExecutive he sought to be into this [[spoiler: and costing him his relationship with his family for decades.]]* In ''ComicBook/{{Echo}}'', the research labs at Henri seem to be neck deep in murder, government conspiracies and potentially [[EarthShatteringKaboom world-ending technologies]] all in the pursuit of an advantage over China and a few quick bucks.* Lord Blackpool from ''ComicBook/LadyMechanika''; a SteamPunk arms manufacturer very much in the 'dark satanic mills' mould.* ''ComicBook/LastManStanding'' has the president of [[MegaCorp Armtech]], Abram.* In the 2015 reboot of ''ComicBook/{{Prez|2015}}'', one group of adversaries is a cabal of corrupt [=CEOs=] led by the CEO of Smiley Industries, the reboot's version of the corrupt political operator Boss Smiley from the original ''ComicBook/{{Prez|1973}}''.* General Patrick Pending, CEO of Circle Sea, who attempts to create a genetically-engineered slave race of human/animal hybrids he can sell for profit in ''ComicBook/ShamansTears''.* The entire board of directors in ''ComicBook/SteelgripStarkeyAndTheAllPurposePowerTool'' are this to a T.* In ''[[ComicBook/{{Tintin}} Flight 714]]'', László Carreidas ''might'' fall under this trope. He's not one of the story's antagonists (who are after his money), and not so much corrupt as compulsively dishonest (he always cheats when playing Battleships).** However the fact the villains are planning to steal from his Swiss bank account where under a false name Carreidas has more then ten million dollars does imply his corruption. And Carreidas while under the influence of truth serum claims to have lived a very dishonest life, stealing since he was 4.** A more typical example is R. W. Trickler of General American Oil in ''The Broken Ear''.* ''ComicBook/{{Tomboy}}'': Irene Trent has manufactured a drug called Ambidrex which causes murderous and violent tendencies in its users and is sometimes deadly, and is also willing to have innocent people killed in order to hide this fact. * In ''ComicBook/{{Violine}}'', Van Beursen and his company's board members are this.* The Blotch in ''ComicBook/{{Zot}}''. It's also revealed that Charity is this trope on a planetary example.* In ''ComicBook/ScoobyApocalypse'', Rufus Dinkley, Velma's brother and one of The Four, is a top-tier businessman, who financed the experiments at the Complex. Post-apocalypse, he's holing himself up in his penthouse, forcing the scientists he's holding captive to work non-stop to find a way to not reverse the monster transformations, but to control the monsters. And he's shown killing the ones who complain about the pressure he's putting on them.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Fan Works]]* In the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Oblivion}},'' Ansem is depicted as one -- he's the CEO of a massive electronics company, and he's got a secret lab where he's carrying out certain unethical (and unnatural) experiments.* Gavin Caine and Roger Arsenault of ''FanFic/TheNewRetcons'' are both this, but it's hard to say who is worse: ** Gavin, who tried to halt an investigation [[spoiler:into whether building Millborough on a nuclear test site affected the health of its citizens]] as revenge by proxy on his son Anthony because he refused to assist Gavin in his expansion plans, and the investigation was spearheaded by the wife of the man Anthony chose to work for instead of him.** Or Roger, who will fan the flames any which way he can so he can buy land dirt cheap and develop it.* ''FanFic/SophisticationAndBetrayal'' has Cashmere, who is very willing to engage in unethical business practices to beat out her competition.* ''[[FanFic/JusticeLeagueOfEquestria Mare of Steel]]'' has Alexander Silversmith (basically ComicBook/LexLuthor as a pony); his first appearance has him arranging a bombing to destroy the facilities of one of his competitors, and he is powerful enough that when Rainbow Dash/Supermare foils his plot, he passes it off as third party zealots trying to frame him and stall the economy. And that's ''before'' he puts his resources to work helping [[GeneralRipper Steel Wing]]'s campaign against Supermare, or helping ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} build a bomb capable of destroying Cloudsdale as part of a SadisticChoice designed to [[BreakTheCutie break Rainbow Dash's will]]. [[spoiler:[[KarmaHoudini Neither of which he's punished for in the story]].]]* Tanizaki Kazuo, the BigBad of the sequel to Claymade's ''FanFic/TheDarkLordsOfNerima''.* ''FanFic/MegaManDefenderOfTheHumanRace'' has Marcus Vickers as of episode 7; before then he was mostly ineffectual. In a bit of a win for [[RealityEnsues reality]], it's shown that the board of directors only put up with him as long as he kept the company's image clean and the profits in the green. When both of those fall apart from his increasingly deranged actions, the board has him voted out of power.* ''FanFic/QueenOfAllOni'': FillerVillain [[SmugSnake Anton Mortimer]] is an example leaning more towards corrupt {{jerkass}} than outright evil: he inherited a Pacific shipping company from his father, which he uses as a front for amassing a huge collection of stolen Asian artifacts to fuel his ForeignCultureFetish. Since his assistant didn't ReadTheFinePrint on her contract, he able to treat her like a slave, forcing her to wear a fuka and change her name just so he has a badass Asian sidekick, with no care towards her personal feelings. And he doesn't hesitate to use his money and connections to try and threaten the J-Team and Captain Black into backing off so he can keep a recently-purchased Oni mask -- and he's not even ignorant of its power; he knows how dangerous it is, but cares more about it as a collectible.* The owner of Freddy Fazbear's in ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' fanfiction ''FanFic/YouSeemAcquaintedWithThoseDoors'' does nothing about the five missing children until the bite of '87 makes the danger obvious. * In the ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'' fanfic ''Fanfic/HeroesForEarth'', this is pretty much the standard MO for everyone who works in the Corporation, as greasing the wheels of government officials, breaking government laws, and strong arming those who dare to protest is done to achieve greater profits and make sure they get away with their actions.* William Meikletrough in ''FanFic/MyLittleAnimaniacs'', a pony who forces Rita to perform in his show by holding several of her friends hostage.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Films -- Animation]]* Lamon Montgomery from ''WesternAnimation/BeeMovie''.* ''WesternAnimation/{{Robots}}'' has Ratchet, TheDragon to [[BigBad Madame Gasket]] who took control of Bigweld Industries prior to Rodney coming to Robot City. He had a plan to con robots out of their money by convincing them to replace their old bodies in favor of shiny newer ones and shutting down production of spare parts for older models to make the new parts their only choice, going against Bigweld's slogan that you can be successful regardless of what you're made of.* Mr. O'Hare in the film version of ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'', as well as the Once-ler before the failure of his business and subsequent HeelRealization.* President/Lord Business from ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie''.* [[PunnyName Hugh J. Magnate]] from ''Film/AFairlyOddMovieGrowUpTimmyTurner''* Averted in ''Disney/MeetTheRobinsons''. The large company Inventco is responsible for mass-producing the [[AIIsACrapshoot evil robotic hats]] which end up [[BadFuture enslaving humanity in one alternate timeline]], but it's strongly implied they had no idea that this would happen. The real villain is actually the original hat itself. Otherwise, Inventco does nothing but positive things, sponsoring school science fairs and giving aspiring inventors a chance to make it big.* [[spoiler:Miles Axlerod]], the ''real'' BigBad of ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Cars}} Cars 2]]''.* [[NoNameGiven "Big Boss"]] from ''WesternAnimation/{{Rio 2}}'', who runs an illegal logging operation in the Amazon and doesn't hesitate to abandon a few environmentalists in the jungle just to cover up his acts.* [[EvilMentor Chester V]] from ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs2''.* Clayton from ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan 2013}}'', who uses a conservation project as a cover for securing the MineralMacGuffin, brings in a private mercenary army to secure control of it, and plans to murder Porter and Jane to ensure that there are no witnesses to gainsay his version of events.* Alistair Krei of ''Disney/BigHero6'', who [[CoolTeacher Robert Callaghan]] mentions as cutting corners when it comes to his company's application of technology. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that one such incident led to the loss of Robert's daughter, when Krei proceeded with the live demonstration of teleportation technology despite the warnings from his own engineer of a problem]].* ''WesternAnimaion/TheJetsons'' Movie: Mr. Spacely, who is normally a MeanBoss to George, hiring and firing him on a whim, graduates into this [[spoiler:by knowingly destroying a colony of cute aliens on an asteroid to mine for raw materials]]. While he does relent and [[spoiler:agrees to let the aliens recycle the sprockets]], he takes away George's raise. * Mr. Gilbert Huph in the ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles''. He is an insurance exec who is determined to deny as many insurance claims as he can, regardless of how legitimate they are as per their customers' contracts. So, if Bob Parr really wanted to strike back at this bully, he could remember that Huph is making himself liable for a major Breach of Contract lawsuit. * ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAbracadabraDoo'': Calvin Curdles has a spy informing him about any struggles suffered by the owner of the castle he wants to buy to turn into a restaurant. [[spoiler:Subverted when it turns out his real reason to want the castle has nothing to do with business.]]* ''WesternAnimation/{{Storks}}'': Hunter is the CEO of Cornerstore, a stork run delivery service that he created to get away from [[DeliveryStork the baby business]]. When a baby is accidentally created, he is more concerned about the value of the company's stocks than the baby's fate. [[spoiler: So much so that he decides that having the baby raised by penguins is better than the real family since that way nobody would find out about their mistake.]][[/folder]]

[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]* OlderThanTelevision: ''Film/ACornerInWheat'' (1909) is about a Corrupt Corporate Executive who monopolizes the wheat market and then jacks up prices, victimizing both the poor farmer trying to sell his wheat crop, and the urban poor who can't afford to buy bread.* Another early cinematic example of this trope are Five Brains and Checkbooks from Film/FrauImMond. They are a mysterious international cabal of capitalists who are trying to hijack the upcoming Lunar spaceflight to control Moon's supposed gold reserves in order to take over world's economy. * ''Film/{{Unstoppable}}'' -- There's a train going at full speed with no one driving it. It's filled with toxic, dangerous chemicals and eventually, it ''will'' crash. What does the head honcho guy (whose company is responsible for the train) say about this? "I'm not gonna put the company at risk just because some engineer wants to play hero!"[[labelnote:*]]Though he's more guilty of poor judgment, as he specifically states that he's trying to minimize the destruction the train will cause, i.e. doing a little damage in a remote area instead of a lot of damage (and death) in a larger area. Once his plans fail, he essentially gives up and tries to manage the impending PR disaster.[[/labelnote]]* Gordon Gekko of ''Film/WallStreet'' being the most obvious.** The sequel has Bretton James, who puts Gekko to shame (and, in fact, put him in prison for many years).* Any part Dabney Coleman plays, with the uber-example being Franklin Hart in ''Film/NineToFive''.* In the first ''Film/RoboCop1987'' movie, Richard "Dick" Jones is an EvilChancellor form of the Corrupt Corporate Executive, since he is only the ''vice''-president of OCP under the seemingly benign "Old Man". In the sequel, the Old Man takes to the corruption like a duck to water.** In [[Series/RoboCopTheSeries the live-action series]], the Old Man is considerably more well-meaning and altruistic; still expects a profit margin, but not willing to cause undue suffering to get there. His company, however, is crawling with [=CCEs=] on every level, providing handy throwaway villains for every episode. The Old Man is constantly surprised that someone with a Harvard education could be so corrupt. That said, even the Chairman he has his moments as he's willing to rush products and initiatives out in the first place without testing them and the episode "When Justice Fails" reveals he's engaged in insider trading.** Seemingly the only remotely honest person working at OCP is Johnson, who was Bob Morton's #2 at Security Concepts, and he has ''some'' morally ambiguous dealings.** The [[Film/RoboCop2014 remake]] has Raymond Sellars, the CEO of [=OmniCorp=] (a subsidiary of OCP). He sees Murphy as nothing more than a machine that is the property of [=OmniCorp=]. Thus, he sees nothing wrong with overriding Murphy's will with the machine components and then [[spoiler:kidnapping and threatening his wife and kid]].* Kurt Fuller has a knack for playing these types (usually dwindling to a ButtMonkey by the end). See ''Film/GhostbustersII'', ''Film/TheRunningMan'' and ''Film/WaynesWorld'' for proof.* Lord Cutler Beckett of the [[TwoPartTrilogy second & third]] ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' movies is one.* A shtick of many ''Film/JamesBond'' villains.** Hugo Drax in ''Film/{{Moonraker}}''.** Elliot Carver in the Film/JamesBond flick ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'' is a corrupt media mogul who has no problem with covertly [[WarForFunAndProfit starting a war between China and the UK to boost his ratings]].** Gustav Graves in ''Film/DieAnotherDay'' is a billionaire diamond magnate and snobbish British playboy who seems to be interested in alleviating world hunger with his new solar satellite, but is actually [[spoiler:[[FarEastAsianTerrorists Colonel Tan-Sun Moon]], a [[RenegadeRussian renegade North Korean colonel]] who hopes to use the solar satellite to invade South Korea. And the wealth he "gained" was actually done by using a mining company as a front for illegally laundering conflict diamonds from Sierra Leone. He's also a SpoiledBrat (as his father had sent him to the West in hopes of bridging North Korea to the rest of the world, but when he learns that his son actually used plastic surgery to become Gustav Graves, he promptly disowns him), as [[MajoredInWesternHypocrisy though he was Western-educated and claims to despise the West for dividing Korea]], he blatantly abuses foreign aid to finance a personal collection of sports cars, undergoes plastic surgery to become a British playboy, and is extremely corrupt and dictatorial.]]** Elektra King in ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'', daughter and heir to her father's Mediterranean oil pipeline, seduced her captor, murdered her father, kidnapped M, and plotted to destroy Istanbul so her pipeline would get more use. She's so much of a twisted villain, she's currently the only Bond Woman 007 himself has killed in cold blood.** Auric Film/{{Goldfinger}}. A ''proper'' Bond villain. If you can't have the United States' gold reserves, you can always just destroy them. Wiping out the entire population of Fort Knox (civilian and military alike) in the process is just collateral damage.** Max Zorin from ''Film/AViewToAKill''. How do you effectively corner the microchip market? Destroy Silicon Valley with a massive man-made earthquake. And if much of the West Coast has to go with it? Who gives a damn?** The whole American government in ''Film/QuantumOfSolace''.** SPECTRE and its mysterious leader Ernst Stavro Blofeld is behind many criminal schemes involving {{Evil Plan}}s of the TakeOverTheWorld variety. And its ruling council is a behind-the-scenes cabal of corrupt officials, politicians, terrorists and businesspersons — [[NebulousEvilOrganization SPECTRE]] is essentially a [[CovertGroup shadow]] [[EvilRunningGood government]], whose members choose to operate in the dark.* Carter Burke from ''Film/{{Aliens}}''. Though not a CEO, he's the only member of TheSquad who answers directly to the MegaCorp that owns the infested colony and constantly endangers everyone by putting his own agenda (capturing and weaponizing the eponymous aliens for profit) ahead of everyone else.** Peter Weyland from the semi-prequel ''Film/{{Prometheus}}''. Which isn't ''too'' shocking, given that his last name is half of the MegaCorp's (Weyland-Yutani).* The entire Nemoidian leadership of the Trade Federation in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', and they only get worse when they become part of the leadership of the Seperatist Army. (Many sources reveal that greed and selfishness - not to mention cowardace - are very common among Nemoidians.) Other factions that lead the Seperatist Army, like the Banking Clan, are cut from the same cloth.* Everyone at the Unexploited Land Development Corporation in ''Film/TheBadSleepWell'' is this, especially the high-level executives like Iwabuchi who are willing to order people's deaths to maintain their position and stay out of prison. * The cleanliness obsessed boss from the movie version of ''[[Creator/DrSeuss Cat in the Hat]]''.* Noah Cross from ''Film/{{Chinatown}}'' is one of the greatest examples in cinema. A cunning, ruthless, and perverse sociopath, Cross, already the richest and most powerful man in Los Angeles, [[spoiler: renders vast farmlands arid by illegally dumping their irrigation water into the ocean, thus causing their prices to plummet to next to nothing. After forcing the farmers to sell their land to his cabal of corrupt business partners, Cross intends to develop his newly acquired land by irrigating it with the water supply diverted from the city itself, through a new aqueduct and reservoir built from $8 million of taxpayer money. His only gain from this elaborate swindle is "''The future!''"]] What's worse, this doesn't even include his more...[[MoralEventHorizon shocking crimes]].* Victor Von Doom (later Doctor Doom) in the ''Film/FantasticFour'' movie (''not'' the comic books) was one of these.* Corrupt Corporate Executive types seem to be a common BigBad for comic book movies in general, including Norman Osborn in ''Film/SpiderMan1'', Kingpin in ''Film/{{Daredevil}}'' and Obadiah Stane in ''Film/IronMan''.* Judge Doom from ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''... And ''how''! Being the [[spoiler:sole stockholder of Cloverleaf Industries, he murders Marvin Acme, the owner of Toon Town (framing Roger for it in the process) and then tries his hardest to make certain that Acme's will is never discovered so that Cloverleaf can win the bidding war to buy Toon Town, so that he can demolish it and build a freeway. (And as if that weren't enough, his plan involves murdering every toon living there.)]]* The plot of ''Film/FunWithDickAndJane'' kicks off with such a CEO destroying his company through fraud, Enron-style, and leaving his second in command and his head of PR to take the heat while he himself goes on to enjoy his millions.* ''Film/TheGodfather'' movies have quite a few. The Godfather himself could possibly count as this too since its all just business for them. And those businesses, casinos, are slightly shadier than others but its the official rule that violence is an accepted form of competition that leads to the worst of it. Despite this, the Godfather is important enough to be recognised and accepted by Senators and other politicians.* Conal Cochran from ''Film/HalloweenIIISeasonOfTheWitch,'' who planned to kill innumerable people through rigged Halloween masks simply ForTheEvulz, and because he's the descendant/reincarnation of an ancient evil Druid.* The Mayor of Whoville from the movie version of ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas''.* Rachel Bitterman from ''Film/ItsAVeryMerryMuppetChristmasMovie''.** Likewise, Tex Richman from [[Film/TheMuppets the 2011 film]]. He has a change of heart in the end, though.* Mr. Potter in ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife''. He owns the bank, and eventually almost every business in Bedford Falls, excepting the Bailey Building and Loan. In the reality where he ''really'' owns everything, general conditions in town are horrific.* The board of directors of the toy company in ''Film/TheSantaClause.'' Tim Allen's character only realizes there's a problem after he starts turning into Santa Claus.** Calling them corrupt seems a bit harsh. They never do anything evil or even unpleasant. The worst thing they do is replace Santa's sleigh with "Total Tank" for their commercial.* Arnold Royalton from the live action ''Film/SpeedRacer'' movie.* In ''Film/SantaClausTheMovie'' (1985), the evil CEO B.Z. (John Lithgow) is firstly vilified as an evil CEO who knowingly produces unsafe toys for children. (Why he would make teddy bears stuffed with sawdust and nails when presumably other metal things that WEREN'T construction nails probably would be cheaper isn't elaborated on... he's evil, get it?) When he gets the chance to market candy that will allow those who eat it to temporarily float or fly, he leaps at the chance to make millions and save his reputation, despite the fact that he has to (with no compunctions) KickTheDog by shrugging off the knowledge that many children are likely to die due to the second, stronger version of the candy exploding if it gets too hot; he intends to take the money and escape to Rio before people find out about the danger.* [[DevilInPlainSight Daniel]] [[MeaningfulName Plainview]] of ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood''.* Paul F. Tomkins from ''Film/TenaciousDInThePickOfDestiny'' who turns out to [[spoiler:actually be Satan.]]** Although he isn't a corporate executive so much as a [[spoiler:stage compere (Open Mike Guy)]].* J.K. Robertson in the [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]-fodder movie ''Film/TimeChasers''. He starts developing the protagonist's time machine as a weapon, destroys the future, refuses to not destroy the future for some reason, and eventually just starts shooting people in the Revolutionary War. Riffing was pretty harsh on the character.-->'''Mike (as Robertson):''' Hi, I'm Bob Evil!** "I leave for ten minutes, and Evil Co is in ''shambles''!"* Played for laughs with Creator/TomCruise's character from ''Film/TropicThunder''.* ''Film/BatmanReturns'' has the aptly named Max Shreck who also fittingly enough dresses and looks like a vampire, since he secretly drains the city of its energy, and not so fittingly puts a convincing act as a benefactor to Gotham. While also whoever is too close to him mysteriously disappears like his wife and his business partner Fred Atkins.* Rutger Hauer's Richard Earle, from ''Film/BatmanBegins''. Rapacious, cold, ruthless, swapping out philanthropy for weapons sales -- definitely not true to Thomas Wayne's legacy. (And demoting Creator/MorganFreeman's Lucius to the basement!) Must have been the role model for ''Film/IronMan'''s [[spoiler:Obadiah...]]* ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'' has Rotti Largo, who used his corporation's wealth to push a bill legalising organ repossession through parliament.* James [=McCullen=] [[spoiler: AKA Destro]] in ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseofCobra''.* Ed Dillinger in ''Film/{{Tron}}''** To a lesser extent, the Chairman of the Board Richard Mackey in the [[Film/TronLegacy sequel]], even though he shows up for only one scene. Apparently, a color manual justifies labeling the same product as new.* As mentioned above, Joseph Pulitzer in ''Film/{{Newsies}}''. He raises the wholesale price of his newspapers by 10% because he wants more money (and who cares about the starving homeless orphans who have to pay for it?). Later, when his actions have provoked a strike that actually ''costs'' him money, he still won't back down, because giving in to demands from ragged street kids would make him look weak.* R. J. Fletcher from Music/WeirdAlYankovic's 1989 film ''Film/{{UHF}}''.* Ian Hawke from the ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' film series. In the first film, he discourages Dave from furthering his music career at the beginning, then once the Chipmunks get famous, he proceeds to spoil them, distance them from Dave, and tire them out from constant tours. It wasn't until the Chipmunks see Dave infiltrating one of their concerts that they realise Ian's a [[BitchInSheepsClothing bastard in sheep's clothing]]. In the sequel, he is jobless, but plans to get his revenge by adopting the [[DistaffCounterpart Chipettes]] and putting their Battle of the Bands audition on the Internet. They end up getting the opportunity to open for Music/BritneySpears, and Ian puts it in top priority over the actual Battle of the Bands concert, threatening to barbecue them if they don't comply.* Parker Selfridge in ''Film/{{Avatar}}''.* William Easton in ''Film/SawVI'' ''seems'' to be this, but he doesn't quite fit the mold as shown [[spoiler:each time he has to let someone die]].* Daniel Clamp, the Donald "I think I am a nice person" Trump parody in ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'' is a subversion; he's no great intellect and is more than a little thoughtless, vain, superficial and shallow, but underneath it all he seems to have a genuinely good heart. Reportedly he was ''supposed'' to be one of these played straight, but John Glover -- no stranger to playing villains -- was reportedly sick of doing the same thing and decided to play against the script.* Jack Bennett, the CEO of Northmoor in ''[[Film/EdgeOfDarkness2010 Edge of Darkness]]''. Not only is he secretly working to [[spoiler:make dirty bombs]] for the US government under the guise of nuclear disarmament, he does not hesitate to fatally irradiate environmental activists or even ''his own employees'' to keep it quiet.* Sidney J. Mussburger in ''Film/TheHudsuckerProxy''.* In ''Film/{{Dogma}}'', Bartleby and Loki visit a board of executives and reveal each and every one (save for one female board member) to be guilty of something horrible. The worst of them has more skeletons in his closet than the rest of the board put together. After messing with their heads, Loki kills them all except the aforementioned woman (and he nearly offs her for not saying 'God bless you' when he sneezed).* Subverted in ''Film/{{Inception}}'' where Saito may be willing to use corporate espionage and screw with his business opponent's mind, but he's a man of honor through and through. When faced with one of Cobb's partners trying to sell him out, instead of taking the guy up on his offer, he has him restrained, tells Cobb what the guy tried to do, and gives Cobb the chance to have revenge. In that same scene, he has Arthur and Cobb cornered, but he still gives them the ''choice'' to work for him or walk away instead of {{blackmail}}ing them as you would expect from any other corporate hack in movies these days. Right before TheCaper begins, Saito dismisses Cobb's worries that he'll be arrested as soon as the plane lands by saying that as soon as the job is done, he'll make [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections a single phone call]] which will get Cobb past Immigration. [[spoiler:At the job's end, despite having just spent ''decades'' of [[YearInsideHourOutside subjective time]] in Limbo and finally returning to reality...[[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming the first thing he does is pick up the phone, just as promised]].]]* ''Film/TheNet'' has Bill Gates CaptainErsatz Jeff Gregg, who uses the BatmanGambit of a cyberterrorist ring to convince the US Government to use his anti-virus program -- which is programmed with a backdoor to allow those in the know easy access.* Al Pacino's character John Milton in ''Film/TheDevilsAdvocate'' is not only evil, he is actually {{Satan}}.* Gatewood in ''Film/{{Stagecoach}}''.* Really averted in ''Film/LocalHero'' - an American oil company is planning to buy a coastal village in Scotland to turn into a refinery/distribution center, and the villagers are all delighted at the prospect of selling out. Meanwhile, the CEO's main interest seems to be what's in the night sky there.* ''Film/RoboGeisha'': Both Hikaru Kageno and his father, Kenyama, heads of the Kagano Steel Manufacturing corporation. They kidnap and force young women into becoming their personal assassins, attempt to murder anyone and everyone who gets in their way, and they ultimately desire to ''destroy Japan'' to achieve their goals.* [[spoiler:Robert]], to an extent, in ''Film/MysteryTeam''.* Travis from ''Film/{{Congo}}'' is so obsessed with making money that he sends out multiple expeditions into the [[BananaRepublic dangerous African jungle]] to search for diamonds that will make his company billions of dollars. When the members of the expeditions keep dying off, he doesn't care. He just sends more people out in the hopes that at least one of them will retrieve the diamonds.** Then there's the fact that one of those people is his own ''son''. And no, he doesn't care.* Alonzo Hawk in ''Film/HerbieRidesAgain''.* Gary Winston in ''Film/{{Antitrust}}''. He tries to justify his actions (which include stealing others' work and outright murder) by claiming that any startup company in a garage can put his software giant NURV out of business.* Averted in ''Film/IrishJam'', where the Japanese businessman Mr. Suzuki, seeking to build an amusement park on a small Irish island is, in fact, an honorable man. It's Lord Hailstock, the local landlord, who is the corrupt one.* ''[[Film/{{Transformers}} Transformers: Dark of the Moon]]'' has [[spoiler:Dylan Gould]], who willingly helps the Decepticons. While it initially seems like he's under duress, it later becomes clear that he is, in some respects, more evil than the Decepticons.* The BigBad in ''Film/TheTuxedo'' is Dietrich Banning, who owns a bottled water company. His plan is to infect the US water reservoirs with deadly bacteria in order to be the sole supplier of drinking water in the country. He also offers the deal to the heads of the heads of the other major bottled water companies, in exchange for 50% of their income.* Pretty much everybody in ''Film/MissNobody'' has some personal corruption, but for the top spot, it's a duel between two of the executives at Judge Pharmaceuticals: Nether, who tries to push a clearly dangerous drug onto the market to make money, and Sarah Jane, who is a SerialKiller trying to get herself one KlingonPromotion after another.* Sam Neill's character Bromley is every bit of this in ''Film/{{Daybreakers}}''. [[spoiler:Even after a synthetic blood substitute is developed, he still won't release the captive humans from the blood farms. Why? Because rich vampires will pay top dollar for the real thing]].* John Carlyle from ''Film/{{Elysium}}''.* Piet Smit from the film ''Film/{{District 9}}'' meets much of the criteria. Executive for a MegaCorp arms manufacturer. Check. Abusing the refugee aliens you've been contracted to care for. Check. Experimenting on them to gain control of their weaponry. Check. [[spoiler:Allowing your son-in-law to be dissected ''live'' just to gain control of these weapons, and then lying through your teeth to your heartbroken daughter about what's happening. Double Check.]]* ''Film/TheWolverine'':** Shingen Yashida from is a rich businessman with ties to the Yakuza.** [[spoiler:Ichirō Yashida]], in the end of his life.* Judah Clark from ''Film/DeadInTombstone'' is the mine owner who happily cuts a deal with Red and the Blackwater Gang to keep the money flowing into his coffers.* In ''Champagne for Caesar'' evil and possibly insane soap company CEO Burnbridge "Dirty" Waters (Creator/VincentPrice) attempts to sabotage the genius who is using his own game show to bankrupt the company. When the genius gets a cold he sends a beautiful woman pretending to be a nurse in order to fog his mighty brain. Of course, the genius figures it out and uses it against him. ** At one point his secretary asks Waters why he just doesn't throw the genius off the show. Waters takes her hands and gently explains his thinking. "You see, my dear, if we throw his off the show our viewers won't like it. If they don't like it they won't watch the show. If they don't watch the show they won't buy our soap. If they don't buy our soap, our sales will drop to nothing [[SuddenlyShouting AND WE'LL LOSE MONEY!]]" * Eric Sacks from ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2014''. His [[spoiler:EvilPlan amounts to releasing a [[DeadlyGas lethal biotoxin]] upon New York just so he can profit from making an antidote]].* Archie Channing from ''Film/{{Quigley}}'' was this at first. He had a lack of goodness and understanding, which was the reason why he treated all of his employees with contempt, along with the fact that he also hated dogs. However, that all changes when he ends up in a car crash and ends up in heaven, but after the angels there tell him that he never did a good deed in his life, they decide that he must be sent back to Earth in the form of an adorable Pomeranian named Quigley, all while supervised by his guardian angel, Sweeney. At the end of the film, Archie is able to amend his unforgiving ways and is able to make amends with his brother Woodward.* Practically all of the main characters in ''Film/EnronTheSmartestGuysInTheRoom''.* ''Film/TheLazarusEffect'' has Mr. Wise, the owner of the rival pharmaceutical company and the Dean of the school. The latter allows the former to take all the protagonists' research, and the former spied on the team and sabotaged their research once they got results.* ''Film/BillyMadison'': Eric is this UpToEleven. [[spoiler: He blackmails Billy's principal into failing him so he can take control of the company. At the academic decathlon, he bombs a question on ''business ethics'']]. * ''Film/ScannersIIITheTakeover'': When Helena takes over her father's pharmaceutical firm (after murdering him in cold blood), she takes the company in ethically dubious directions he would have objected to, uses her psychic powers to kill her professional rivals, and eventually tries to brainwash the world.* In ''Film/JurassicWorld'' Hoskins is convinced that Masrani is one of these. Nope, it's a SubvertedTrope: Masrani is indeed an HonestCorporateExecutive. Bone-headed, sometimes, but honest. The ironic part is Hoskins himself is arguably a CorruptCorporateExecutive (ok, chief of security but he does take over the park after [[spoiler: Masrani's death]]). How corrupt is he? [[spoiler: He and MadScientist Dr. Wu had deliberately engineered the Indomitus Rex to be intelligent and vicious, then ordered the raptors to attack her, as a ''field test''. Turns out they're trying to breed dinosaurs to replace conventional weapons in warfare.]]* The antagonist, Mr. Jeffries, from ''Film/AmazingGraceAndChuck''. He's essentially a stand-in for the more nebulous concept of the military-industrial complex as a whole: rich, powerful, ruthless, and not happy that some "wild cards" are messing with the system that he derives his wealth and influence from.* Bartholomew Bogue, the BigBad of ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven2016'', is the 'Robber Baron' version; driving homesteaders off their land so he can mine it for gold. Farraday even refers to him as 'Robber Baron' Bogue.* The BigBad of ''Film/TheAccountant'', [[spoiler: Lamar Blackburn.]]* ''Film/HotFuzz'': Subverted with Simon Skinner. Nicholas initially connects the series of murders to him and a land deal [[spoiler: but it turns he and the NWA were murdering people in a twisted attempt at winning a community award. His business tactics were quite ethical]]. [[/folder]]

[[folder:Literature]]* Literature/TheRadix: Deena Riverside and Dilon Armstrong, respectively [=CEO=] and owner of Taft-Ryder Farmaceuticals, who hunt for Radix, a holy relic that belonged to Jesus, to develop a new, [[CutLexLuthorACheck groundbreaking medicine]].* Occurs in Daniel Handler's ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents''. Closer to this than CorruptHick is Sir, the amoral, cigar-smoking lumbermill owner who pays his workers in coupons and gives them gum for lunch; in a later appearance, business is bad, as nearby lumber source the Finite Forest is running out of trees.* Occurs several times in David Wingrove's ''Literature/ChungKuo'' series.* In Creator/RoaldDahl's ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'', it is mentioned that [[TheWonka Willy Wonka's]] first factory was put out of business due to his recipes getting stolen by [=CCEs=] via corporate espionage. This is a major reason why Wonka hires Oompa Loompas, because they are completely loyal to him. As a subplot in the first film adaptation, Charlie is approached by a CCE who tries to convince Charlie to spy on Wonka for him (fortunately, it's only a SecretTestOfCharacter, and Charlie refuses anyway).* Robert Sobel's AlternateHistory classic ''Literature/ForWantOfANail'' features Bernard Kramer, a RagsToRiches German immigrant who corrupts the democratic political system of the United States of Mexico for the benefit of his MegaCorp. [[spoiler: He even prepares the installment of a [[TheEmperor dictator]].]]* Averted in ''Literature/StarshipsMage'' by the righteous fury of a CEO whose interstellar corporation would have had a zero-fatality year, if it weren't for the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Corrupt Corporate Executives]] at competing companies. He provides information to the protagonists as they're going up against the corrupt government that was handing out [[NoOSHACompliance safety "exemptions"]] left and right. * British sci-fi author Creator/PeterFHamilton deliberately set out to invert this trope with Julia Evans, the young idealistic CEO of Event Horizon, in his trilogy about psychic-detective Greg Mandel. She keeps most of her industry in Britain to provide work and a strong economy (this also increases Event Horizon's power and influence within Britain) and quashes [[TheWorldIsNotReady potentially harmful technologies]] rather than make a profit from them.* Newman King, founder and CEO of the eponymous retail chain of Creator/BentleyLittle's ''The Store''. Whereas the average CCE causes suffering as a side-effect of their ruthless pursuit of profit, King and his organization go out of their way to cause completely unnecessary suffering ''on top of'' the side-effects of his ruthless pursuit of profit. The company's corporate motto might as well be "ForTheEvulz." The Store sets up shop in small towns, buys the local government and puts small business owners out of business, like a relatively normal company might. But then it also does things like buy up the town's utilities so it can spy on people's phone calls and e-mails, murder small business owners, , force employees to go out and beat the homeless, stock child pornography and other bizarre, illegal products, whore out female employees, sic zombies on people, trick a man into having sex with his own daughter and send his wife the videotape of it, etc. This is, however, partly done as jet-black satire.* Derek Leech in assorted fiction by Creator/KimNewman; a [[StrawCharacter living embodiment of Thatcherism]] or an AnonymousRinger of UsefulNotes/RupertMurdoch crossed with {{SATAN}} himself.* Reacher Gilt from Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Discworld/GoingPostal''. Essentially John Galt from ''Literature/AtlasShrugged'' reincarnated as a MagnificentBastard, he runs the Grand Trunk (essentially a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore_line pre-telegraph version of Western Union]]) and is willing to run the machines until they fall apart (and kill off the operators as needed) in the name of extra money. In fact, he's a con artist like Moist von Lipwig, the book's protagonist, but worse because he has more ambition and fewer scruples; it's eventually revealed he plans to run the company into the ''ground'' and buy it at rock-bottom prices under an alias, just to see if he can get away with it. He also conned the original owners of the Grand Trunk by buying the company with its own money, driving them into despair and poverty, and keeps a half-feral banshee on hire to kill anyone who threatens his long con whom he can't buy off or discredit. ''All this'' Gilt did because conning and outsmarting people [[ForTheEvulz is his idea of fun]].* The villains of ''Literature/AtlasShrugged'' are the Robber Baron variety with an emphasis of power (or 'pull') over money, complete with public welfare projects in order to smooth over the various crimes they commit.* This occurs many times in the ''Literature/{{Destroyer}}''. The example that comes to mind is the Executive of the Vox network trying to take over a rival via using the Evil AI FRIEND.* The emissaries from the Western Galactic Empire in Robert Zubrin's ''The Holy Land'', who arrange for the export of [[AppliedPhlebotinum helicity]] from Earth. They seem like average sorts until it becomes obvious that the technology they help Earth import in exchange is used to murder hundreds of billions of innocent people and transform America into a totalitarian regime, and yet their biggest worry is the imminent formation of a [[RecycledINSPACE Space OPEC]] that cuts into profit margins.* Guilder Worlin in the third book of ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}: Literature/GauntsGhosts'', who doesn't hesitate to murder anyone who gets wind of his illegal operations and inadvertently [[spoiler: leaves the door open for an invasion of the city.]]* ''Literature/BattlefieldEarth'''s [[MeaningfulName Psychlos]] have a disproportionate number of corrupt corporate executives: BigBad Terl's whole plan is to get access to some gold off the company records, and is able to [[strike:blackmail]] [[BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord gain "leverage" over]] his boss by exposing the latter's embezzlements. Their race even has company regulations allowing planetary overseers to take whatever actions deemed necessary to ensure a profit. Of course, anyone who is actually ''caught'' embezzling corporate profits is executed.* Felix Jongleur, founder and owner of [[MegaCorp J Corp]] in Creator/TadWilliams' ''Literature/{{Otherland}}'', seems to feel that it's his right as the oldest living human being to use his financial power to find a way to cheat death, regardless of the cost in terms of money, lives, or morality.* In Creator/TomHolt's ''Literature/JWWellsAndCo'' series, many of the members of the board of executives of the eponymous company are like this, and since the company supplies magical services to anyone able to pay enough, the members of the company often have supernatural powers themselves. Both [[MadScientist Professor van Spee]] and [[TheFairFolk Judy di Castel'bianco]] try to take over the world before being neutralized by the hero, and Dennis Tanner is universally regarded as a highly unscrupulous jerk, though not as evil as some of his colleagues. The latest book, ''The Better Mousetrap'' features another corrupt executive from a rival company, who has people killed on a regular basis until [[spoiler: she is sent back in time and her magical abilities are neutralized.]]* In Sebastian Faulks' ''A Week In December'', John Veals may qualify, given that he's only out to make as much money as possible and to do it legally - ethics aside.* ''Literature/AbleTeam''. Unomondo, who controls powerful business interests in Central and South America, funds {{Banana Republic}}s and death squads, and is the BigBad behind a neo-Nazi conspiracy with sympathisers in the US Government itself. Probably the closest thing that series had to a recurring villain.%% * ''Literature/MaximumRide''. Every antagonist in the series is one of these.* Geryon from ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' is a more rustic version of this, essentially making him a combination of Corrupt Corporate Executive and CorruptHick* The sequel series ''Literature/TrialsOfApollo'' feature [[spoiler:[[TheManBehindTheMan Nero and the other surviving Emperors]], who secretly manipulate conflicts through their company, [[MegaCorp Triumvirate Holdings]].]]* Subverted in ''Fletch and the Widow Bradley'' by Gregory [=McDonald=], where Fletch is drawn into a story that seems to revolve around a Corrupt Corporate Executive but really, the lies, half-truths and doctored documents all turn out to be the result of the CEO's convoluted personal life, for which Fletch and the reader feels empathy.* Pavel Kazakov from the Creator/DaleBrown novel ''Warrior Class''. A Russian oilman with the goal of building an oil pipeline in the Balkans as part of re-strengthening the Fatherland, he is [[TheDreaded feared]] even by the Russian higher-ups, [[ShroudedInMyth rumoured]] to be a powerful [[TheMafiya Mafiya boss]] and druglord and certainly in possession of much violent power.** Harold Kingman from ''Act of War'', a slimy and well-connected oilman whose facilities [[WellIntentionedExtremist eco-terrorist group GAMMA]] seek to wreck. When he tries to get Jason Richter and the [[ImpossiblyGracefulGiant CID]] technology into his hands, Jason's refusal is empathic.* Marc Vilo (and to some degree, the rest of the Board of Governors) in ''Literature/TheActsOfCaine''.* Jon Spiro from the ''Literature/ArtemisFowl: The Eternity Code'', has an alliance with the Chicago mob, and states that he intends to spend the last 20 years of his life bleeding the planet dry with the stolen 'Cube' supercomputer; once he's gone, the world can go to hell with him for all he cares.* The Privy Council of the Literature/{{Sten}} Series is a FiveBadBand of CCE's, whose ruthless money-grubbing is eclipsed only by their perverse proclivities.* Occasional antagonists in the ''Literature/{{Bolo}}'' universe.* ''Literature/HollowPlaces'' mentions the upper management of Shore State Corrections. They institute policies that purposefully foster recidivism in their prisons in order to increase profits.* The [[OurElvesAreBetter Darhel]], from Creator/JohnRingo's ''Literature/LegacyOfTheAldenata'', is a ''race'' of [=CCEs=]. Human [=CCEs=] also are seen here and there in the series.* Rod Portlyn from the ''Literature/StarfleetCorpsOfEngineers'' series. How corrupt is he? He deliberately poisoned a colony world to induce crop failures, then came in to buy the increasingly useless land. He kept the farmers on as workers and thus earned their gratitude by "saving them" from bankruptcy. He turned another world in the same star system into a dumping ground for garbage, and he later tries to murder its population. All in the name of profit, obviously.* Red Hammernut from Creator/CarlHiaasen's ''Literature/SkinnyDip''. Hires everyone from crooked hydrologists to hitmen to keep his farming operation looking clean enough on paper that he doesn't have to spend money on pollution controls. * Lois [=McMaster=] Bujold's ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'':** [=GalacTech=]'s executives in ''Literature/FallingFree''.** The White Chrysanthemum Cryonics Corporation in ''Literature/{{Cryoburn}}''.** The literal robber Barons of Jackson's Whole.* Sir John Charnage from the ''Literature/YoungBond'' novel ''Literature/DoubleOrDie'' is an owner of several failing businesses, and plans to leave England to [[spoiler:Soviet Union]], taking revolutionary technology with him. His late father was even worse, as he let the men working in his factories work in inhuman conditions, and used his connections in high places to keep it that way for better profit.* Xanatos, Qui-Gon's former apprentice in ''Literature/JediApprentice'', is the head of Offworld, one of the largest mining consortiums in the galaxy. Under his control, Offworld has stripped numerous planets of their resources, blackmailed and/or bribed governments, and backed criminal politicians on several planets. Its front company [=UniFy=] in ''The Day of Reckoning'' is no better, keeping the population of Telos pacified with BreadAndCircuses while they stripmine the planets holy spaces, and contaminate their sacred pools with chemicals. And that's leaving out the fact that Offworld is also involved with the illegal slave trade, and Xanatos' terrorist vendetta against the Jedi.* Morgan Sloat in ''Literature/TheTalisman'' at first. However, the truth is slightly more complicated and involves alternate realities.* There are many of these in ''Literature/{{Daemon}}'', working with unsavoury PrivateMilitaryContractors to try and preserve the status quo.* ''Literature/TransformersTransTech'' story "I, Lowtech" has protagonist Bulletbike, whose only redeeming quality is that he's ''technically'' never broken a law or directly injured anyone. [[ProtagonistJourneyToVillain Then he gets worse]]. His ArchEnemy Ego is no better, and it's implied ThereAreNoGoodExecutives period.* ''Literature/TransformersShatteredGlass'' has [[spoiler:the human R.J. Blackrock]], who turns out to be PlayingBothSides so he can later [[spoiler: kill all of the Cybertronians]] for his own benefit.* Max Barry's ''Literature/MachineMan'' has The Manager, head of Better Future. The bastard even smirkingly admits to [[spoiler:putting an {{EMP}} in Lola's heart.]] Well. At least before Dr. Neumann [[spoiler: kills him via DestinationDefenestration]].* [[TheFaceless The Onceler]] from ''Literature/TheLorax''.* Peter Sharpe of the Prometheus Corporation, from ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfProfessorJackBaling'', describes the Prometheans as shepherds and humanity as sheep. Two guesses on how much value he assigns to the lives of people who aren't "enlightened."* ''Literature/YearZero'' is pretty much one long scathing (albeit amusing) indictment on the music industry and those in charge.* ''{{Literature/Airframe}}'' turns out to have two in [[spoiler: John Marcer and Bob Richman]].* Billington in ''Literature/TheJenniferMorgue''. This is quite logical since the book is an homage to the James Bond books, where the BigBad is usually a megalomaniac CorruptCorporateExecutive.* ''Literature/WorldWarZ'' features Breckenridge Scott, inventor and vendor of Phalanx, a purported "cure" for African rabies (actually the zombie virus). It was actually a placebo, and he openly gloats about fooling most of the population into believing his rabies vaccine was a cure.* ''Literature/TheDivide'': Snakeweed runs a potion company that considers proper testing a complete waste of time, leading to treatments that work great on one mystical species and are usually lethal to others.* ''{{Literature/Paranoia}}'': Nick Wyatt, head of Wyatt industries, is this personified, as he sees any and all competition, in any field, as something to be conquered, to the point of firing those he disagrees with. He also is not above using blackmail and extortion to get his employees to engage in illegal activities such as corporate espionage, burglary, theft, and breaking and entering, or face being sent to prison for at least 20 years and your life ruined.* In ''Literature/ComradeDeath'', Sarek eventually goes from a PunchClockVillain ArmsDealer -- selling weapons because his employer now manufactures weapons -- to the head of the Krieger MegaCorp and sole producer of arms in the world. [[WarForFunAndProfit All wars benefit Sarek]] and he sinks his vast fortune into developing new and horrific chemical weapons, even making vague promises to someday provide [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Not-Hitler]] with the firepower to blow up the world.* Fashion designer Gordon Steuber in Mary Higgins Clark's ''While My Pretty One Sleeps.'' He hires illegal immigrant women (some of whom are underage) to make his clothes in sweatshops, he cheats on his income taxes, and he smuggles heroin in the linings of his clothes. He's also suspected of murdering one woman and arranging a hit on another. [[spoiler:He turns out to be innocent of the last two things. But he's still a thoroughly nasty character; when police ask him about the planned hit, he says he has nothing to do with it, "but what a great idea."]]* People that saw the first ''Film/JurassicPark'' film and decided to give the [[Literature/JurassicPark book]] a try got a ''very'' rude awakening when they learn that John Hammond of the book was this trope. He makes no qualms about blackmailing his employees, cutting costs, and endangering people if it means he can open a park (or three) and make a profit out of it. [[spoiler: His greed and unwillingness to see how much of a failure the park is eventually got him killed when he was attacked by a herd of compys.]] Compare that to the film, where Hammond comes across more as a WellIntentionedExtremist (he genuinely wanted children to experience the same wonder and excitement he feels about dinosaurs, but he still cuts corners to try to speed up the opening day, [[spoiler: but is willing to disown the park when he sees how much of a disaster the park had become]]).* ''Literature/TheRunningMan'': Damon Killian is the smarmy head of the Games Company, overseeing the {{Immoral Reality Show}}s that are broadcast to the poor populations to distract them from how the network is poisoning the air.* The ''Literature/CraftSequence'' involves a lot of shady business dealings, but Tan Batac in ''Literature/LastFirstSnow'' takes the cake. [[spoiler:He engineers a conflict that turns a peaceful protest movement into a bloodbath... to get his company out of a bad insurance deal.]][[/folder]]

[[folder:Live-Action TV]]* Grossberg, the first head of Network 23 on ''Series/MaxHeadroom'', is so archetypal that every Corrupt Corporate Executive since has, perhaps unintentionally (or indirectly, by way of Gordon Gekko of ''Film/WallStreet''), paid him homage. Specific foibles of the character type that he manifested include an almost {{bishonen}} level of grooming, [[GoodHairEvilHair slicked-back hair]], and a severe facial tic.* Ziktor of ''Series/VRTroopers'' was essentially a Grossberg clone, with the added twist that he was also secretly a monstrous being from AnotherDimension.* Series/{{JAG}}: This trope is often used as defense contracters will sell faulty equipment at premium prices resulting in deaths of service members. ** In "Pilot Error", Macroplex executive James Reid doesn't believe he is wrong about Pendry's responsibility for the crash, but he resorts to some incredibly underhanded tactics to try and prove it, including a character assassination campaign.** In "Act of Terror", Percival Bertram is a wealthy businessman (looking like a CorruptHick) who supports right-wing conservative politicians and brands himself as a super-patriot advocating that the U.S. should take gloves of with respect to terrorists to U.S. interests in the Middle East. However, the alleged super-patriot finances terrorism in the Middle East against U.S. interests (supposedly to create a self-fulfilling prophecy gaining his own business interests.) * ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'' has four presidents of Genm Corp. appear through the story's run and only one of them is not this trope. Starting with a [[FountainOfMemes memetic]] [[AGodAmI god wannabe]] [[note]] Sociopath who commited mass murder for a sake of a deadly game [[/note]] , continuing with [[MonsterOfTheWeek Bugster]] in [[DevilInPlainSight disguise]] [[note]] PointyHairedBoss who perpetuated said game [[/note]] and concluding with [[TheManBehindTheMan manipulative]] [[AbusiveParents father]] of the first example [[note]] FauxAffablyEvil [[EvilerThanThou bastard]] that makes everyone look cuddly in comparison. [[/note]] It's a miracle [[spoiler: [[TheEveryman Tsukuru]] ]], the last CEO as of #45 managed to survive under all of them.* Anton Mercer of ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'' was at first almost indistinguishable from Ziktor. His twist, though, was that he wasn't actually evil: he was just acting that way to keep anyone from noticing that he was in a JekyllAndHyde relationship with the series BigBad.* Barney Stinson from ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' can be considered this, after having looked over documents on his desk in an episode his lawyer friend Marshall comments that "I'm fairly certain that if these contracts aren't executed precisely, we will be at war with Portugal." To which Barney simply responds "Forget that, that's a Tuesday for me" and start complaining about his own social issues instead. Though this could be considered a spoof on the trope rather than actually playing it straight. Almost every deal Goliath Bank is involved in seems to involve some at least questionable activity, including possible treason with North Korea.** He knows so much about the illegal and probably treasonous activities of the bank that he claims he will never be fired - but might end up in a landfill somewhere. Of course this is [[BlatantLies Barney Stimpson]] so we can't be sure.* George Bluth from ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' is definitely this trope, he built houses for Saddam in Iraq which may or may not have been used to hide WMD silos. He ends up wanted for the entire spectrum from light to severe treason.* Jim Profit (''Series/{{Profit}}'') was another in the Grossberg line -- and he was the central character of the show. Though it must be said that Profit isn't exactly ''corrupt'': granted, he does some very unethical things, but he does them to people who turn out to be far more corrupt and/or actively dangerous than he.* Edward Vogler from ''Series/{{House}}'' was a very classic example.* Gene [=McLennen=] and Jonas Hodges in ''[[Series/TwentyFour 24]]'' (as well as a handful of others throughout the series).* ''Series/DoctorWho'':** A good pre-80s example is Tobias Vaughn from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion The Invasion]]". As noted above, he was very much a corporate Blofeld.** The Collector from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E4TheSunMakers The Sun Makers]]" - defeated when the Doctor taxed him to death.** There's also Captain Dent from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E4ColonyInSpace Colony in Space]]", who murders colonists to clear the planet for mining operations and thus higher profits for the corporation he represents.** And there's Morgus from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E6TheCavesOfAndrozani The Caves of Androzani]]", who murdered the president, conducted industrial sabotage on his own company, arranged for vagrants to toil in his work camps and perpetuated a planetary civil war just to keep his profit margins acceptably high.** The new series of ''Series/DoctorWho'' has [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E6Dalek Henry van Statten]], whose computer company is based on stolen ImportedAlienPhlebotinum including an imprisoned Dalek, and Vaughn's AlternateUniverse successor, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E5RiseOfTheCybermen John]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E6TheAgeOfSteel Lumic]], creator of new Cybermen. Plus Kazran Sardick from "[[Recap/DoctorWho2010CSAChristmasCarol A Christmas Carol]]", a man so bitter that he was going to let 4003 people die in a spaceliner crash - not ForTheEvulz, but because he just didn't care. Also [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E7TheLongGame the Editor]], and [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned Max Capricorn]].* Most of the villains who appeared in ''Series/KnightRider'' and ''Series/TheATeam'' were of the combination Corrupt Corporate Executive[=/=]CorruptHick variety.* Everyone initially in Wolfram and Hart of ''Series/{{Angel}}''. Especially Holland Manners. And the Senior Partners, sort of.* Likewise, most of the higher-ups at [[{{Series/Dollhouse}} Rossum]], though the person at the top is [[WellIntentionedExtremist not]].* It is subtly implied that ''Series/{{Firefly}}'''s Blue Sun Corporation is behind some of the [[MindRape trauma]] River Tam suffered while at the Academy; for example, in "[[{{Recap/FireflyE04Shindig}} Shindig]]" she attacks several food cans with the Blue Sun logo on them, and in "[[{{Recap/FireflyE09Ariel}} Ariel]]" she takes a butcher knife to one of Jayne's shirts bearing the corporation's logo -- while he's still wearing it (though it is [[FanWank also argued]] that she did this because she knew that Jayne would [[spoiler: try to sell her and Simon out to the Alliance later]]).* ''Series/TheWire'':** Russell "Stringer" Bell" has very clear aspirations to ''become'' a CCE and ascend from his status as just a drug kingpin, and takes economics classes at a community college and starts buying up housing properties to this effect. [[spoiler:His own ruthless, double-dealing nature comes back to haunt him, though, and he's killed before any of these plans can come into fruition.]]** There's also Frank Sobotka, who is a corrupt labor union official/harbor foreman. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for him, RedemptionEqualsDeath when his "business partners" find out that he was about to talk to the cops.]]* Subverted in ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'', where [=ZieraCorp=] is a company run by a rather creepy woman named Catherine Weaver, who acquires the Turk supercomputer. [[spoiler: Weaver turns out to be a T-1001, but is actually on humanity's side in trying to prevent Judgment Day and defeat Skynet.]]** That may be true, but that makes [[spoiler:"her" a WellIntentionedExtremist, as "she"'s perfect willing to kill anyone in "her" way]].* ''Series/{{SCTV}}'' satirised this with the characters Guy Cabalero (played by Joe Flaherty) and Mayor Tommy Shanks (played by John Candy). Another John Candy character that qualifies as this is Johnny [=LaRue=].* One of the stock bad guy types on ''Series/MacGyver1985''.* Creator/AlecBaldwin's Jack Donaghy on ''Series/ThirtyRock''. Jack is rather sympathetic by the usual standards of the character type, but that really doesn't say much. Devon Banks, Jack's rival, may be a better example.* Damon in ''Series/{{Enlightened}}'' is an example of this trope. Abaddonn is already shaping up to be a pretty nasty company on its own merits, added to which he is up to dodgy financial practices.* Domyoji Kaede, at least in the j-drama continuity of ''Manga/HanaYoriDango'' is implied to use unethical practices to secure her company's massive, monopoly-esque corporate empire.* The KoreanSeries version of the above example, ''Boys Before Flowers'', has the EvilMatriarch systematically destroying her son's love interest's livelihood, while manipulating the corporate empire she created. This includes telling her own children that their father died [[spoiler: when in fact he was in a stroke-induced coma]].* Another example of a KoreanDrama is ''Series/CanYouHearMyHeart''. CEO Choi delibrately witholds oxygen to his ill father-in-law in order to inherit the company. And that's just for starters...* Every CEO defendant on ''Series/LawAndOrder'' exemplifies this trope.* Vexcor's Essa Rompkin and Brion Boxer, the {{Big Bad}}s of ''Series/CharlieJade''. As heads of an above the law MegaCorp, bribery and having people killed are child's play for them. The really impressive bits are Boxer's plan to steal the water from a parallel earth to replenish the one his company's polluted, a process which will destroy a third universe as a side-effect, or how, to rejuvenate the decrepit Boxer, Essa calls employees up to her office and forces them on the spot to consent -- under the threat that they and their family will almost certainly be condemned to poverty if they refuse -- to a fatal medical procedure wherein Boxer essentially drains the life out of them.* Despite the show ostensibly being about ''ninjas'', the most common villain on ''Series/TheMaster'' (known to ''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]'' fans as ''Master Ninja'') would be one of these. It might explain why the show didn't last more than thirteen episodes.* Every member of the PlanetOfHats [[Franchise/StarTrek Ferengi]] race, if they were high enough in business to be considered an executive. Their race doesn't distinguish between corrupt and non-corrupt, as long as you make a profit.* The villains on ''{{Series/Damages}}''. Unless they're [[DirtyCop Dirty Cops]] who just work for one.* The NID from ''Franchise/{{Stargate|Verse}}'' verse, though they only wanted to get access to alien tech. After they got rooted out, the Trust took over instead.** Don't forget [[MagnificentBastard Ba'al]] himself, who somehow manages to become the head of a major corporation on Earth.** Del Tynan, a low-level supervisor for Tech Con Group on Hebridan is a conspiracy nut who believes that the [[LizardFolk Serrakin]] and the [[HalfHumanHybrid human/Serrakin hybrids]] are secretly in charge and putting pure humans down as second-class citizens. It turns out that the reason for his complaint is that he was passed over for promotion twice. When the president of the corporation Miles Hagan (who is the aversion to this trope, as far as we know) confronts Tynan, he explains that the reason he was passed over for promotion was due to an internal investigation into Tynan, which revealed corruption. A rare case of a CCE who tries to justify his actions with racist conspiracy theories.* Richard "Dick" Roman from series seven of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''. It's hard to get much more corrupt than "possessed by the leader of the abominations God dumped in Purgatory for everyone's safety". He also claims the real Roman was a lower-key example (he picked up prostitutes and then kicked them out of hotel suites).* B.P. Richfield of ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'', who's willing to do anything to make a profit, [[spoiler:including causing an Ice Age that will kill the dinosaurs. His only thought was that heaters, blankets, and cocoa were selling like hotcakes.]]* Lionel Luthor on ''Series/{{Smallville}}''. Much like his hair follicle-challenged son in the ''Superman'' timeline, his agribusiness [=LuthorCorp=] has plenty of underworld connections: Lionel killed his parents in a staged 'accident' and used the insurance payout as a startup for his company. (This backstory was borrowed from the post-[[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths Crisis]] Lex Luthor.) His friend and partner in crime was Morgan Edge, who of course later went on to become a major kingpin in Intergang. [=LuthorCorp=] functions as a standard soap opera antagonist in the series, meddling in small town politics and running clandestine mutant research in underground labs. ** [[TheBaroness Tess Mercer]], who replaced the Luthors at the company's helm, is a different variation: a [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-intentioned]] ecoterrorist who used her position to try and order around Clark Kent, her chosen messiah. (Of course, saying that she "replaced" the Luthors isn't really accurate since [[TheReveal she]] ''[[LongLostRelative is]]'' [[InTheBlood a Luthor]].) Once she does a HeelFaceTurn to join Clark's team, she actually uses her habits of this in almost a TokenEvilTeammate way to help the [=JLA=] out (mostly by using [=LuthorCorp=] to fund things just like Oliver does, and using her position as Clark's and Lois's boss to cover for them).** Then there's [[AlternateUniverse Earth-2 Lionel]], who managed to combine this trope with DiabolicalMastermind, fusing [=LuthorCorp=] with the Metropolis underworld and essentially becoming TheEmperor. * ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' lives and breathes by this trope. Nearly every AssholeVictim in a given episode is either a mega-corporate exec or the country hick version of this, with a preference for going after the former. WordOfGod has stated that many of their villain/victims are based heavily on real corrupt executives and real crimes that they've committed, with only the tiniest bit of embellishment -- and that in some cases, the fictional version has been toned DOWN from their real-life counterpart because the real thing just wouldn't seem believable to TV audiences.** Don't forget the CCE who knows about the team's activities and makes money off them. It turns out he's in cahoots with another CCE, who [[spoiler:put the team together in the first place]].* ''Series/BurnNotice'' has a few, although the show tends to focus on other kinds of criminals. The most notable is John Barrett (played by RobertPatrick), the head of a [[PrivateMilitaryContractors private security firm]] who finances corrupt governments and terrorists.* 90% of villains of the week in ''Series/WhiteCollar'' are this, due to the nature of the show.* ''Series/{{Andromeda}}'' has Sid Barry (under the name Sam Profit) run [=TransGalactic=], a large shipping company. He has tons of skeletons in his closet, and Beka is determined to expose him. Later on, he tries to run for public office. When Beka decides to release proof that Sid is a murderer and a smuggler, he laughs and reveals that this information is already public but was twisted into making him look sympathetic.* ''Series/TowerPrep'' is apparently run by a board of these.* ''Series/WonderWoman2011Pilot'': you have Veronica Cale, who does illegal experiments on trafficked in people and tries to use her connections to politicians to intimidate her rivals. Wonder Woman herself actually averts this trope. Sure, she's a brutal psychopath who tortures people in hospital beds and murders security guards (and abuses personal connections to get away scot-free -- she ''is'' corrupt, just not in the sense of this trope), but the way she runs her business showcases she's not interested in wealth. In fact, she sabotages herself in terms of money in one scene, ordering a recall of an exploitative doll, she she gave consent to earlier).* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' brings us recurring villain Ian Quinn. [[VillainWithGoodPublicity On the surface]], he's a philanthropist who champions deregulation of government interference with scientific research. However, the truth is that he only wants that so that he can profit from the development of dangerous advanced technology, which he's willing to blackmail and manipulate scientists to get his hands on. And if that's not enough to convince you he's evil, the end of his second episode reveals that [[spoiler: he's working for [[BigBad The Clairvoyant]]]].* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In "Virtual Future", Creator/DavidWarner played Bill Trenton, a ResearchInc's evil CEO. He hires a research scientist who developed a device that could predict the future, but decides to use the device to win an election by murdering his rival.* ''Series/WhenCallsTheHeart'' has Henry Gowen, who knew about the unsafe conditions in the mine but covered his own hide and was responsible for the deaths of 46 men. He then spent the better part of a season sabotaging efforts to bring the mining company to justice.* ''Series/InspectorGeorgeGently'': In "Breathe the Air", a Swiss corporation is covering up the fact that they knew that asbestos was giving their workers cancer years before they shut down their factory. Their ruthless cover-up drives a doctor to suicide.* ''Series/Babylon5'':** Edgars Industries, which is planning [[spoiler: [[FinalSolution wholescale genocide of telepaths]]]].** Interplanetary Expeditions also is willing to engage in more than a little corruption in order to get its job done, something the Alliance plays into in order to get needed supplies past the [=EarthGov=] embargo of the station:--->'''Sheridan:''' ''[to a visiting IPX executive]'' If you're going to be working here, you'll be packing a lunch. We just want to make sure you bring enough for everyone.* Baron Kite, the leader of the conspiracy in ''Series/OliversTravels''.* ''Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood'': Believe it or not, this trope showed up in something of a ShowWithinAShow: Mr. Rogers put on an opera involving a town called Bubble Land, and that opera's villain was the [=CEO=] of the Bubble Chemical Company named W. I. Norton Donovan. He sold cans of compressed air as "spray-on sweaters" that [[ItMakesSenseInContext protect your bubbles]], and when confronted with the sheer impossibility of spray-on sweaters, he tried to [[JustJokingJustification pass it off as a joke]]. [[spoiler: These cans of compressed air, when used, actually gave him BlowYouAway powers and turned him into a living windstorm. Yes, an episode of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood ''actually had'' a corrupt corporate executive who turned himself into a supervillain!]]* ''Series/KluenCheewit'': Jeerawat's poor excuse of a lying, lusting stepfather, who uses fear and intimidation to force people to sell their property and lands.* Parodied mercilessly in ''Series/ABitOfFryAndLaurie'' with their "John and Peter" sketches. John and Peter are a pair of ruthless, high-flying businessmen making their way to the top in deep-[=80s=] Britain who treat things like [[MundaneMadeAwesome managing a car park]] as if it's the most important thing on the planet. They also drink glass after glass of scotch and loudly shout "DAMN!" at every conceivable opportunity. * ''Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood'': There was an opera-episode "Windstorm in Bubbleland" where there was a villain named W. I. Norton Donovan who was running the Bubble Chemical Company, which was selling cans of compressed air...not marketing them as computer-cleaning devices, but as [[SincerityMode invisible spray-on sweaters]] that protect the citizens' ''[[SeriousBusiness bubbles]]''. [[spoiler: These cans of air were actually generating wind, and this wind actually turned W. I. into a supervillain with BlowYouAway powers.]] You can't make this stuff up!* ''Series/TheIndianDetective'': David Marlowe, especially when his business dealings with the Chandekar brothers are brought to light.* ''Series/{{MANTIS}}'' sees the title character deals with some of these, most notably, Solomon Box, a former business partner of his alter ego, Miles Hawkins. Box kicked off the series by bribing someone Hawkins hired to destroy a toxin they'd created to hand the toxin over to Box sell so he could sell it to North Korea. In "To Prey in Darkness", he had the corrupt Police Chief Grant pass one of his agents off as a federal agent to kill M.A.N.T.I.S. and in the "Thou Shall Not Kill"/"Revealation" two-parter, he arranged the death of a city councilman so Grant's task force could be approved and [[spoiler:it was revealed that the shooting at paralyzed Hawkins (and ultimately led to him making the exosuit he'd later use to fight crime) was a botched assassination Box had ordered.]][[/folder]]

[[folder:Music]]* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjGASsP2co0 'Bad Businessman']] by the Squirrel Nut Zippers.* Music/IronMaiden's "El Dorado" is mostly told through the point of view of one of those.* UFO's "A Self Made Man" is told through the point of view of one of those.* The eponymous character of Music/RayStevens' "Mr. Businessman."-->"You can wheel and deal the best of them/Steal it from the rest of them/You know the score/Their ethics are a bore."* The eponymous bourgeois sociopath of Music/WarrenZevon's 'Mr Bad Example' has a phase of this in Australia, stealing the wages of the aboriginals he has hired to work the opal mines, after previous occupations as an altar boy (where he stole the collection), a carpet fitter (where he laid his clients' housewives and stole their furnishings), a lawyer (when he counselled all his clients to plead insanity), a hair replacer ('swindlin' the bald!'), and a gambler (where he lost all his hair replacement money, mugged a prostitute for her passport and her wig, and caught the midnight flight from Monte Carlo to Adelaide). The song ends with him having to flee another country, cash in hand. -->''I bought a first-class ticket on Malaysian Air,\\And landed in Sri Lanka none the worse for wear,\\I'm thinking of retiring from all my dirty deals,\\I'll see you in the next life, wake me up for meals!''[[/folder]]

[[folder:Pinballs]]* In ''Pinball/PopeyeSavesTheEarth'', Bluto is a proud and unrepentant planet-destroying polluter with a cartel of toxic companies.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]* In the '80s, Wrestling/{{Ted DiBiase}} was one of the early examples of this trope in nationally televised wrestling. He was billed as the "Million Dollar Man" and paid Wrestling/AndreTheGiant to win the WWF championship only to sell it to him immediately after the match. When the bought title was not recognized by the WWF, he declared himself the Million Dollar Champion and created his own Million Dollar Belt. He was also something of a DastardlyWhiplash, as at times he would engage in evil behaviour with no significant personal gain whatsoever, such as when he offered a young child $100 if he could dribble a basketball ten times without dropping it, then kicked the ball out of the child's hands half way through.* Wrestling/EricBischoff crossed this with TheQuisling when he joined [[Wrestling/NewWorldOrder the nWo]] at the end of the November 18, 1996 ''Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro.''* Wrestling/{{Vince McMahon}} became this as part of his heel turn following the {{Kayfabe}} Wrestling/MontrealScrewjob at ''Survivor Series 97'', leading to him forming his own PowerStable Wrestling/TheCorporation.* Wrestling/DonCallis played this role twice. In Wrestling/{{ECW}}, he was Cyrus, who was supposed to be the face of [=TNN=] and who was supposedly trying to bury ECW and get it thrown off the Network, which was also the name of his power stable. Under his own name in Wrestling/{{TNA}}, he played a "Management Consultant" who was looking to oust Director of Authority Erik Watts from his position and who did everything in his power to make life difficult for Wrestling/JerryLynn.* [[Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron Victoria]] played this role when she was the Commissioner of WWE's developmental promotion Memphis Championship Wrestling in 2001, since she was still competing and working as a heel manager for Steve Bradley.* Wrestling/StevieRichards played it for laughs when he was the self-appointed General Manager of ''[[{{BShow}} Sunday Night Heat]]'', which he had renamed ''Stevie Night Heat'' and was supposedly the head of "[=StevieCorp.=]" His CatchPhrase for this was "ALL STEVIE! ALL NIGHT! NOTHING BUT HEAT!"* After his run in APA, Bradshaw became Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield (or "JBL") and, playing off his legitimate success in the stock market, became a [[Series/{{Dallas}} J.R. Ewing-inspired]] robber baron who did anything he could to capture and then keep the WWE Championship, keeping a stranglehold on the belt for nine months before losing to rising star Wrestling/JohnCena. JBL often belittled anyone below his perceived class status and often threw his money around to get what he wanted. This was exemplified in his early 2009 run when he employed a broke Wrestling/ShawnMichaels to help him take the WWE Championship from Cena. It didn't work.* Wrestling/PaulHeyman played this role as the General Manager of ''[=SmackDown!=]''.* Wrestling/JohnLaurinaitis as the general manager of both ''[=Raw=]'' and ''[=SmackDown!=]'', depicted as the leader of an evil outfit known as "People Power," which consists of Laurinaitis, David Otunga, Wrestling/EveTorres, and Wrestling/TheBigShow.* After [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]] won and immediately lost WWE's title belt came Wrestling/TripleH and his "Best For Business" regime, officially known as "Wrestling/TheAuthority", put together to ensure Daniel Bryan would keep losing.* In 2014, Joshi fed REINA hired "The World Famous" Wrestling/{{Kana|koUrai}} as a consultant, because every child of Wrestling/{{HUSTLE}} apparently [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter had to trust her]] at least [[ContractualGenreBlindness once]]. Naturally she instructed them to reward her friends, punish wrestlers in their way and bribed her way to victory in the ring, gradually taking over the promotion.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Religion]]* ''Literature/TheBible'': You'd expect something OlderThanFeudalism to be exempt from this trope, but in the Parable of the Shrewd Manager, a wasteful manager is told that he's going to be fired, so he needs to give an accounting of his management. While the audit was still going on, he cooked the books in such a way as to get on the good side of his master's debtors, so that they'd be grateful to him...so that he could ''mooch off them''.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tabletop Games]]* In ''[[http://misspentyouthgame.com/ Misspent Youth]]'' by Robert Bohl, if the group creates a Corporate villain, then it will no doubt include corrupt and rotten [=CEOs=]. It's a game where you play bomb-throwing anarchist teenagers who are out to upend a Dystopia that has it out for them personally.* Anyone in a CEO position at Pentex in ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse''. Those not in the know merely believe that the company plays fast and loose with environmental regulations and human rights laws to deliver cheap-to-produce product to a demanding audience. Those in the Inner Circle know that the company is actually an extension of [[EldritchAbomination the Wyrm, the universal embodiment of decay and corruption]], and that their products are [[MayContainEvil stuffed full of Bane spirits that play on humanity's negative emotions]] -- and they don't care if the company makes a profit or not, because they're all licking the Wyrm's filth-encrusted boots.** Technically, anyone not in the know shouldn't realize Pentex even exists as an entity; it should just look like a bunch of shady but independent companies that are all in each others' pockets.* ''TabletopGame/{{Orpheus}}'', also from the TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness, has a number of standout examples among the ghost-tech corporations: the drug-manufacturing head of Terrel & Squib, the ex-blood diamond baron that leads the mercenaries of Next World, and [[spoiler:the unethical experimenting of the founders of Orpheus itself]]. The corebook also wryly notes Orpheus' complex backs up to one of Pentex's.* ''TabletopGame/{{Cyberpunk}} 2020'' has the character class "Corporate". While you are not ''required'' to be corrupt, is there really any fun in role playing a normal executive?.[[note]]Perhaps. It's a class similar to a Cleric/Priest in fantasy games, using your influence on the company to provide those who work for you with goodies[[/note]] The best in-game example may be Saburo Arasaka, CEO and major shareholder of the Arasaka corporation, who is using it in the pursue of Japan's world domination.* The various corporations and megacorporations that run much of the show in ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}''.** Out of all the Corps in the Sixth World, Aztechnology takes the cake. Not only are they the largest practitioners of BloodMagic in the world (A type of magic ''so evil'' that before [[spoiler:Dunkelzahn sacrificed himself to fuel a Mana-Absorbing Artifact]], ''every spell a blood mage cast'' would bring the EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt a bit closer),but the board of directors also has connections with [[EldritchAbomination The Horrors]]! They've come incredibly close to having an [[NukeEm Omega Order]] called out on them by the Corporate Court, but their [[VillainWithGoodPublicity squeaky clean public image]] has allowed them to prosper. After all, who would believe that the company behind the [[PredatoryBusiness Stuffer Shack]] would want to bring about the end of the world?* The Chrysalis Corporation in ''TabletopGame/CthulhuTech'' takes it to a whole new level, insofar as their Director is actually ''Nyarlathotep''. Don't think anyone else is gonna be toppin' ''that'' one any time soon.* ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' in its CloakAndDagger lore has a lot of big traders and merchant cabals ranging from unscrupulous to [[TheMafia mafia]]-like to fiendish.* ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'' has many opportunities for this, since the dragonmarked houses are essentially [[{{Magitek}} magical]] [[MegaCorp Zaibatsu]].* [[TabletopGame/RogueTrader Rogue Traders]] of the ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' universe can often become this, being fabulously wealthy merchant princes given free reign to orchestrate business ventures in the far reaches of space by Imperial bureaucracy. This being [[BlackAndGreyMorality the]] [[CrapsackWorld universe]] that it is, even the HonestCorporateExecutive examples of Rogue Traders will often treat employees as expendable and exploit entire planets for profit in the name of capitalism. It's just that there are far worse Traders that will hire incredibly dangerous aliens like Orks and Dark Eldar, or sacrifice the men under their command [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney just because they can]]. It's all relative, really.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Theater]]* Friedrich Dürrenmatt's dark comedy ''FrankTheFifth'' is about a bank which is owned and operated by solely such people. The bank uses all kinds of illegal methods, and routinely has customers and employees murdered.* The board of directors of General Products in ''Theatre/TheSolidGoldCadillac'', composed of four stuffed shirts named T. John Blessington, Alfred Metcalfe, Warren Gillie and Clifford Snell.* Caldwell B. Caldwell from ''Theatre/{{Urinetown}}''. His Urine Good Company forces people to pay steep fees to use public restrooms (the only kind that exist anymore), and arrests anybody caught peeing without paying. [[spoiler:A subversion in that everyone dies as soon as he's overthrown, since his policies actually kept the water shortage from getting out of control.]]* Brook Lansdale in ''Theatre/{{Allegro}}'', a soap manufacturer who may not be the nominal executive of the city hospital but has enough authority to promote his sycophants and fire anyone he doesn't like. He's not so interested in pursuing patients who aren't wealthy, but does take an interest in the protagonist's wife.* Phil Romano in ''Theatre/ThatChampionshipSeason'' is a strip-mining mogul who gives frequent kickbacks to local authorities; he made a significant campaign donation to help his former basketball teammate George Sitkowski become mayor in exchange for generous terms on the land lease for his mines, and when it looks as though George's re-election bid will fail, he tries making a similar donation to his opponent (who refuses).[[/folder]]

[[folder:Video Games]]* ''VideoGame/ActOfWar'''s Consortium is a bunch of corrupt business executives who use terrorism as an excuse to jack up oil prices, and also happen to finance several terrorist organisations.* ''VideoGame/ArmyOfTwo'' combines this trope with PrivateMilitaryContractors in the form of [[spoiler:the heroes' own military corporation, SSC, whose leadership is plotting to privatize the United States military so they can take over the country.]]* The villains of ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' is the Iron Throne trading company which just wants to make a shitload of money, but it's later revealed that the adopted son of the local leader is [[BatmanGambit just using them]] for his [[AGodAmI much grander scheme]].** It is worth noting that (being a ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' game set in the ForgottenRealms) the Iron Throne is invoked as being a largely LawfulEvil organization in-universe.* In ''VideoGame/BatmanTheTelltaleSeries'' it's revealed that Bruce's father Thomas Wayne had ties with the mafia and the [[CorruptPolitician corrupt mayor]], and amassed wealth by drugging and gaslighting other rich people [[spoiler: including the Penguin's mother]] and committing them to Arkham Asylum in order to steal their land and money.* Crey Industries in ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'', which has its own black ops teams and engages in kidnappings, employee brainwashing, and shakedowns regularly (then bribes the judges or claims "rogue employee" when caught in the act). Alarmingly, a lot of the technology that keeps [[CityOfAdventure the city]] running smoothly was built and sold by them, [[VillainWithGoodPublicity making them seem more respectable to the public]] than they really are.** Kirk Cage runs a ruthless mining group called the Cage Consortium in the ''VideoGame/CityOfVillains'' that works its miners to death- causing said miners to rebel, with [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower strength gained from sheer force of will]].* ''VideoGame/CriticalDepth'' has both Dana Nagel, CEO of Mondred Corp, who plans to use the mysterious [[PlotCoupon Pods]] to exploit for profit, and Sebastion Titan, head of Titan Industries, whose plans border on downright [[TakeOverTheWorld world domination]].* The [[MegaCorp WEC]] is the big bad in the ''VideoGame/{{Crusader}}'' series of games. If you are a bad guy and not a [[HumongousMecha robot]] or a [[{{Mooks}} soldier]], you are a Corrupt Corporate Executive. 'No exceptions''. The office politics would make Machiavelli have a nervous breakdown.* Bob Page is ''VideoGame/DeusEx'''s Corrupt Corporate Executive VillainWithGoodPublicity, taking [[RefugeInAudacity refuge in the unlikelihood of anyone digging]] [[AGodAmI deeper]].** David Sarif from ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'' is a downplayed version, coupled with a healthy dose of UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: While he does and orders some ''very'' shady things (such as [[spoiler:purposely sticking a bunch of unnecessary military augs into Adam to make him his own private killer cyborg, his covert investigation of Adam's past, and refusing to let police rescue hostages in one of his factories so his private killer cyborg can keep corporate secrets away from the public eye]]), he's shown to be a benevolent idealist at heart and genuinely believes that what he's doing is for the benefit of all humanity. [[spoiler:Zhao Yun Ru]] is a straight example, though.* Arius of ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry 2'' , who seeks and wields demonic power for world domination while publicly the head of the international Uroboros corporation.* The Shinra Electric Power Company in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', with the exception of Reeve. Shinra's main industry in the game seems more "World Domination" than "Electric Power". Or "Weapons Manufacturer" before even that.* Genevive Aristide and her company, Armacham Technology Corporation, from ''VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon'', are so corrupt that they have no qualms with murdering their own employees in sight of federal agents and then killing those same agents with uniformed security guards. Nor do they hesitate to arrange for a nuclear explosion in the middle of a large, populated city - and this is just the ''cover-up'' for ''even worse'' things they've done. Most of ''them'' were perpetrated by Harlan Wade. At some point, you begin to wonder if [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Alma]] really is the BigBad, or Wade[=/=]Aristide[=/=]''Armacham itself'' is. They're wholly responsible for Alma's creation ''and'' escape to wreak her RoaringRampageOfRevenge.* Adrian Ripburger in adventure game ''VideoGame/FullThrottle'' is another example of a villainous ''vice''-exec with a [[CoolOldGuy benign]] [[UnclePennybags superior]]. Since he murders said superior and takes his place relatively early in the game, however, the distinction is probably moot.* The Korx in ''VideoGame/GalacticCivilizations'' are the literal embodiment of this stereotype -- the government and the whole planet are run by one company. So when you play as their leader, technically you are a CEO. Ironically the system works well: everything they have is capital and hence valuable (although they are max evil). Unfortunately their neighbors are externalities...* ''VideoGame/HauntingStarringPolterguy'': Vito Sardini is the CEO of the Sardini Company that sells defective skateboards to innocent teenagers. He has a nasty facial expression, smokes a fat cigar, values his money over everything and has according to the on-screen text an MBA in "sleazy economics".* The Morganites of ''VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri'' operate as a collective of businesses under their leader who is, by default, titled [=CEO=]. While not instrinsically evil like the Korx, the faction ''can'' be played as amorally as you, the [=CEO=], desire.** Technically Morgan got aboard the ''Unity'' illegally, having his people install a secret [[HumanPopsicle cryo-pod]] on the ship. He justifies it by saying that, as a major contributor into the construction of the ''Unity'', he, technically, owns part of it.* In the ''Civ''-clone ''CallToPower'' series, one of the government models you discover in the Modern Age is the Corporate Republic, where corporations assume the role of government agencies. So once again, if you're evil and head the main business in charge of the government...* A large number of characters in the ''{{VideoGame/Hitman}}'' series are Corrupt Corporate Executives. Special mention goes to Blake Dexter from ''[[VideoGame/HitmanAbsolution Absolution]]''.* Goldman from ''VideoGame/HouseOfTheDead'' initially appears to be one of these, but then he turns out to be [[OmnicidalManiac much]] [[MadScientist more]].* The Glukkons in the ''VideoGame/{{Oddworld}}'' game series are similar to the aforementioned Druuge -- a species of out-of-control capitalists. Their lives revolve around harvesting the animals on their planet, processing them, and selling them as snack food. By the time of the first game, ''Abe's Oddyssee'', they've driven one race into extinction (the Meeches) and the others are rare. Thus, they turn on their slave race, the Mudokons, and [[ImAHumanitarian attempt to turn them into their next product]]. In the second game, ''Abe's Exoddus'', they've taken to making a soft drink from Mudokon ''bones and tears''.** ''[[VideoGame/OddworldStrangersWrath Stranger's Wrath]]'' gives us Sekto, the owner of Sekto Springs, a water bottle selling company that made a dam around the Mongo River region, damaging the wasteland and making life difficult for the native Grubbs.* Chairman Drek, the BigBad of ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClank'', had a far-reaching, [[PlanetLooters planet-looting]] scheme for making endless profits, the thwarting of which was Clank's sole motivation throughout the first game.** And then there's Gleeman Vox from ''VideoGame/RatchetDeadlocked'', who hosts a MerchandiseDriven intergalactic TV event called [=DreadZone=], where captured heroes are forced to fight to the death.* Mitsuko Isurugi from ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars Original Generation 2'' is able to plan with all sides except for the Einst, simply because all sides know that she will only look out for herself, and wants the war to continue so she can profit off of it. The only reason she doesn't work for the Einst is because they're {{Eldritch Abomination}}s and she can't make money off of them.* Wario's role in the ''VideoGame/WarioWare'' series is as one of these, but as an AntiHero rather than a villain. He's a lazy, greedy bastard with terrible hygiene problems, but the RuleOfFunny and RuleOfFun get him a free pass via his microgames, and he usually receives some form of AmusingInjury at the end of the game as karma.* ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'''s BigBad is Nicole Horne, head of the Aesir Corporation, a member of the [[AncientConspiracy Inner Circle]], the twisted mind behind the nightmare drug Valkyr, and the one behind the murder of the title character's wife and baby girl.* ''Franchise/MassEffect'':** The planet Noveria exists as a place for Corrupt Corporate Executives to operate and perform research outside the bounds of Citadel law.** [=ExoGeni=] Corp is in charge of the colony on Feros where [[spoiler: it conducts experiments on the colonists, allowing the telepathic Thorian creature to exercise its control over them so its researchers can observe the effects. After Shepard's intervention, [=ExoGeni=] attempts to wipe out the entire colony.]] Later in the game, [=ExoGeni=] employees' experiments with Thorian creepers lead to disaster after the Feros mission when the creatures go berserk and kill most of them. The last surviving researcher attempts to bribe Shepard to prevent her arrest.** The ultimate evil executive in the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' universe: Nassana Dantius who is implied to have her employees murdered if they leave before the expiration of their contract, and tries to have them all killed out of paranoia in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''. Not only does no-one mourn her once she's assassinated, her company's stock goes ''up''.-->"Tell your assassin to aim for the head... 'cause she doesn't have a heart."** Miranda Lawson's ArchnemesisDad is one of the wealthiest businessmen in the entire galaxy, but his role in the actual story is more that of a MadScientist.** Then there's Donovan Hock, a wealthy businessman (arms dealer) and patron of the arts on Bekenstein. Taking him down is the goal in Kasumi's loyalty mission.* And before Noveria, Creator/BioWare worked this trope through ''Videogame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' with Czerka. Two planets worth of slavery, genocide, environmental damage, and other shady practices. A light-side PlayerCharacter can scam them mercilessly and get away with it. In the sequel, they're at it again, trying to screw over Telos, getting cozy with the Exchange (mobsters), and the local rep overrunning the place with mercenaries and paid thugs to subvert the Telosian Security Force.** Bites them hard in the ass come ''Videogame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' where [[GoodIsNotNice hard]]-[[GoodIsNotSoft liner]] [[IronLady Republic Chancellor]] Suresh has had enough of their flagrant disrespect for the law and orders their assets seized for crimes against the Republic. {{PlayerCharacter}}s are part of the cleanup crew on the Republic side, but the Empire wants to swoop in and grab whatever they can before the Republic makes off with the company assets.* The Umbrella Corporation in ''Franchise/ResidentEvil''. Notably, when the government finally had evidence of Umbrella's misdeeds in the TimeSkip before ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', they destroyed the company by freezing their business practices, crashing their stock price and driving them into bankruptcy - it doesn't matter how powerful a corporation you are, if you can't do business, you die.** And [[spoiler:the shadowy Other Corporation Albert Wesker works for. And the Raccoon City Police Department. And most of the S.T.A.R.S management. And really any organisation in the Resident Evil games.]]* Perennial villain of the ''[[Videogame/HammerinHarry Daiku no Gensan/Hammerin' Harry]]'' series, Hyosuke Kuromoku. Not coincidentally, his company uses modern-style construction workers, while hero Genzo/Harry is a traditional Japanese carpenter, and heroine Kanna is the heir to the company that employs him.* ''[[VideoGame/AdvancedVariableGeo Advanced V.G.]]'': Miranda's video game counterpart secretly created [[ResearchInc Section-9]], where she used her own daughter, Reimi, as [[SuperPrototype a testbed]] for her GattacaBabies. K-1, K-2, and later, the Material Twins were the result, all of whom were [[TykeBomb biogenetically engineered killing machines.]] Though [[YouHaveFailedMe she killed each of them]] for failing to defeat [[TheProtagonist Yuka Takeuchi.]] Which caused Yuka to [[ItsAllMyFault blame herself for their deaths]] and briefly [[HeroicBSOD lose her fighting spirit.]]* ''[[Franchise/ShinMegamiTenseiPersona Persona]]'':** ''VideoGame/Persona3'' has Tanaka, the Devil Social Link, who spends his time with the player talking about doing shady business (but not before making the protagonist pay him as an "investment"), though his interactions with the [[MessianicArchetype Main Character]] will encourage him to consider philanthropic work, if only for the purpose of having the people he may potentially help owe him.** One of ''VideoGame/Persona5''[='s=] main antagonists is Kunikazu Okumura, the president of fast food company Okumura Foods. He ruthlessly exploits his employees to the point that his MentalWorld depicts them as mindless robots. Additionally, he plans to marry his daughter off to an abusive scumbag simply to advance himself politically.* ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'' and ''RedFaction'' had the Ultor corporation. Doing anything to earn a buck off Stillwater's middle and wealthy classes, they will not hesitate to exploit workers, start gang wars and bring in heavily armed men to protect investments.* Master Zilla of Zilla Enterprises from ''ShadowWarrior''. His forays into evil sorcery and his plans to take over Japan with his summoned monsters was what prompted Lo Wang to quit the corporation. When Zilla tried to [[ContractOnTheHitman have Lo Wang killed]], Lo Wang took the fight to him.* The Druuge from ''VideoGame/StarControlII'' are a whole PlanetOfHats of Corrupt Corporate Executives. Marriages are entirely based on contracts, and any offspring who reach maturity are forced to pay a percentage of their income to their parents. Every member of the race works for the Crimson Corporation, which owns ''everything'' on all Druuge-occupied planets, including air. Thus, anyone who is laid off from the Crimson Corporation is accused of poaching company property, and either executed or sent to be used as crew/[[PoweredByAForsakenChild emergency fuel]] on a Mauler-class spaceship. All the while, the Druuge are trying to stab each other (and other races) in the back and claw their way to the top of the corporate pyramid.* Avery Carrington from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'', also a CorruptHick. He's not an antagonist though, being this a criminal simulator [[GreyAndGrayMorality with allies and rivals rather than good and evil]].** Carrington also mentored Love, who played this role in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII''. They even have similar dialogue between the two games.* Adrian [=DeWinter=] and the executives of [[PrivateMilitaryContractors Artemis Global Security]] in ''Creator/TomClancy's VideoGame/{{HAWX}}''. After getting contract with Brazil to fight Las Trinidas and fought a battle to defend Rio, the US intervened, making the stocks drop, so after a while, [=DeWinter=] accepts deal from Las Trinidas (because [[EvilPaysBetter it pays better]]) and launched an all-out assault on USA, trying to assassinate the president, disabling country's missile defence system, and trying to nuke the country.* Were it not for Edward Diego trying to cover up his corrupt antics, [[VideoGame/SystemShock SHODAN]] would have just sat and quietly run Citadel Station.** Similarly, the Von Braun would not be such a death trap and [[TheVirus the Many]] would have remained ineffectually stuck on some chunk of space-debris were it not for a few Tri-Optimum executives.* In ''VideoGame/EarthBound'', Geldegarde Monotoli ran the show in Fourside, and it was hinted he made a [[DealWithTheDevil deal with Giygas]] to gain so much power, and before that was a nameless employee in a large company. Many citizens complained the abuse of his power ruined their lives. Once the player defeats the Mani Mani Statue and cuts off Monotoli's connection to Giyagas he apologizes for his actions, explaining that his behavior was due to the statute's influence. In the postgame you can find he happily went back to his old job as an elevator operator. * ''[[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Pokémon Platinum]]'': [[spoiler: Cyrus, the leader of Team Galactic]]. He runs a huge corporation, and that is a facade for the true plan to [[spoiler: make him a deity]]. Could also be considered a severe case of AGodAmI.** [[spoiler: The CEO of Altru Corp. in ''VideoGame/PokemonRanger: Shadows of Almia'' is also the head of Team Dim Sun. The two are nigh-completely parallel - just replace "oil power" with "Pokémon power".]]** In ''VideoGame/PokemonXDGaleOfDarkness'', [[spoiler: Mr. Verich is an obscenely rich man bribing the sailors of Gateon Port, and is likely the man who made a load of money through the mines under Pyrite Town. Given he's the man in charge of Cipher, doesn't it make more sense that he'd finance the construction of Realgam Tower, which served as Evice/Es Cade's base of operations in ''[[VideoGame/PokemonColosseum Colosseum]]''?]]* Ayano of ''VideoGame/ArTonelicoMelodyOfElemia'' is introduced as one of these, as the head of the villainous Tenba Corporation. [[spoiler:It turns out she's ''not'', and everything bad about the company is actually Bourd's fault. Once he's out of the way, she makes sure it's reformed.]]* Chief Blank from ''VideoGame/SpaceChannel5'' is a loon who'll do anything to get high ratings, including brainwash the masses.* Heihachi and Kazuya Mishima from the ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'' series probably count. Jinpachi was a benevolent CEO, but Heihachi quickly corrupted it, and Kazuya was even worse (e.g. smuggling endangered animals, which brought Jun Kazama into the picture).* ''VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}''. The game does quite a bit to {{Deconstruct|ion}} the idea of the Objectivist writings of Creator/AynRand by showing the player an anarcho-capitalist dystopian hidden city pretty much filled with these guys. Fontaine and [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Sinclair]] stand out.** ''VideoGame/{{BioShock Infinite}}'' gives us another example with Jeremiah Fink, a cruel and unforgiving Robber Baron who basically controls all of Columbia's industry and maintains it with what amounts to little more as a slave labour force.* In ''VideoGame/{{Spore}}'', a player can evolve their species into one of these by sticking in the middle path (getting either three or all blue cards) as the Trader archetype, which the game defines "... are in it for the profit; their allegiance is to the almighty sporebuck". This idea really can be played out, in which a trader empire will generally have lowered prices for all general purchases and colony tools, as well as to have the cash infusion super power (which doesn't have a penalty with local empires), which simply allows the progress bar for a system's trade to fill up instantly, allowing you to buyout the planet if you have the cash. Factor it in with the ability to farm spice and the fact that only [[ScaryDogmaticAliens zealot]] and [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy warrior]] type empires (as well as the [[BigBad the Grox]]) are your only sworn enemies, you can take over a large chunk of the galaxy just through simple exploration and trade and never even have to fight until you're strong enough to do so. And they say money doesn't talk...* In ''VideoGame/{{Oiligarchy}}'', you get to play as one of these, running an oil company that engages in every ''WesternAnimation/{{Captain Planet|AndThePlaneteers}}''-worthy crime imaginable.* The recent "King of the Dwarves" quest of ''VideoGame/RuneScape'' has the dwarves think the Consortium is that. The ultimate reason for that is the death of two miners in a cave-in, [[spoiler:as the Consortium's forces, the Black Guard, was too busy saving the machines damaged in the same terrorism-based explosion to help them.]] The trope isn't played straight - [[spoiler:the decision was necessary to avoid further disasters caused by the city's power supply being destroyed.]] This doesn't help with preventing all the civil unrest.* Reaver in ''VideoGame/FableIII'', the CEO of Reaver Industries. While his business ethics are already atrocious (destroying the environment and actively using child labor), Reaver himself, in his first cutscene of the game [[BadBoss shows how he stomps out union protesters]] - personally, using a pistol.* [[VideoGame/{{Portal 2}} Aperture Science CEO Cave Johnson]] [[PosthumousCharacter apparently fits]] this to a T, especially in his later years when he had to resort to putting his own employees through tests, though he stands out mostly for being a CloudCuckoolander and CrazyAwesome.* Henry Leland, Chief of Development of ''VideoGame/AlphaProtocol'''s Halbech, inc. His character design and voice job appears to have been custom-tailored to make him look and sound as much as a corporate sleazebag as humanly possible, to say nothing of [[GoodSmokingEvilSmoking his smoking habits]].* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' give several examples:** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]''*** Great House Hlaalu is a haven for these types, along with being a [[ProudMerchantRace Proud Merchant House]]. [[ChronicBackStabbingDisorder Chrobic Backstabbing]] is rampant and the House's favored skills all lend themselves well to lying, cheating, and stealing one's way to success. Additionally, several of their highest ranking councilors are in the pocket of the brutal [[TheMafia Mafia-esque]] [[TheSyndicate Cammona Tong]]. When dealing with them, either as part of the House Hlaalu questline or the part of the main quest where you need to be named Hlaalu Hortator, you ''will'' need to bribe, blackmail, or, in one or two cases depending on how you play it, outright kill in order to get the support you need.*** Carnius Magius of the East Empire Company in ''Bloodmoon''. [[spoiler: He's embezzling from the Raven Rock ebony mining colony and tries to get it to fail to cover his tracks. Whether you side with him or against him, he'll eventually turn on you]]. ** Thonar Silver-Blood and Maven Black-Briar in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]''. The former owns Cidhna Mine, the largest silver mining operation in Markarth, and has an agreement with the city guard where any criminals arrested in Markarth can be forced to work in the mine as slave labor. He also hires mercenaries to seize control of rival mines in the area so their owners are forced to sell to him. The latter controls Riften's mead industry, and regularly hires the ThievesGuild to sabotage her competitors and put them out of business as well as the [[MurderInc Dark Brotherhood]] to deal with anyone she doesn't like. Also, for extra frustration points, if you choose to resolve the CivilWar you ''have'' to make one of them a KarmaHoudini. If you take the Stormcloaks' side, Thonar's older brother Thongvor Silver-Blood will become the new Jarl of Markarth, while if you take the Empire's side, Maven Black-Briar will become the new Jarl of Riften. However, Thonar can be killed once you discover that he's been using the leader of the Forsworn to perform assassinations disguised as terrorism, but Maven will always be essential no matter what.* Rich Dotcom in ''VideoGame/MegaManStarForce 2''. His diabolical plan to take over a hotel is to fake accidents ''and'' yeti sightings, thereby driving away customers until the owner has no choice but to sell! [[spoiler:Naturally, the ''actual'' villains are using him like a chump for reasons that aren't really explained all that clearly.]]* Trade Prince Gallywix of ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' in spades. When the volcano above Bilgewater Port began to erupt, he extorted a fortune from his own cartel for the right to board his ship. Once onboard, he locked them all in chains as his slaves. His later betrayal on the Lost Isles was not a surprise, but the fact that Thrall let him live and continue to lead the Cartel was.** In fact, the Goblin player character is for the most part portrayed as a Corrupt Corporate Executive in the starting quests. Whether his/her experiences escaping from Kezan and the Lost Isles have changed him/her is left up in the air...** It can be argued that any Goblin in ''World of Warcraft'' with any authority whatsoever is a Corrupt Corporate Executive or a merchant trying to be one someday, or at least those who aren't already a MadScientist or a PointyHairedBoss, with rare exceptions.* Averted in ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'' with [[spoiler: Deus's Reincarnation, who takes time out of his work schedule to help an old man (Who is the emperor he ironically killed in his past life who reincarnated as well) cross a busy street. Olga is his SexySecretary.]]* Cassandra de Vries in ''VideoGame/PerfectDark'', and Zhang Li in ''Perfect Dark Zero'', both CEO of [[MegaCorp dataDyne]].* The Bankster skillpath in ''VideoGame/DungeonsOfDredmor'' is all about weaponizing the various shady dealings associated with this trope.-->'''Skillpath description:''' "There's nothing an adventurer can't face with a bunch of derivatives, a diversified stock portfolio, and absolutely no morals whatsoever"* Handsome Jack, the main villain of ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' is CEO of the Hyperion corporation and to put it lightly, an egotistical maniac who declares practically everyone on Pandora a bandit (even those who aren't actually bandits) and a despot who is pointlessly cruel to everyone [[ForTheEvulz for kicks and giggles]].* ''VideoGame/RealityOnTheNorm'': Yathzee, the owner of the company "Yathzeebrand", which is known, among other things, for brainwashing its employees and demanding them to nearly worship the CEO.* ''VideoGame/TachyonTheFringe'' has the Galactic Spanning Corporation (AKA [=GalSpan=]), the most powerful MegaCorp in both Sol and the Fringe. The Fringe branch is run by Regional Director Gustav Atkins. The main story arc involves [=GalSpan=] moving into the Bora area of space in order to claim its resource-rich [[AsteroidMiners asteroids]]. Atkins uses a [[LoopholeAbuse legal loophole]] to obtain legal rights to those regions (apparently, the ancestors of the Bora never bothered to file for permission to settle in a far-away area of space). Not only does Atkins use his ArmyOfLawyers to force Bora colonists to leave, he then hires mercenaries to attack those who refuse or are a bit too slow in leaving (yes, including firing on unarmed shuttles). Sabotage is also not out of the question. Whichever CCE runs the Sol branch is also responsible for blowing up a hospital in order to hide the accidental release of a deadly virus. If you take the side of the Bora and win the campaign, Atkins is fired by his bosses.* Simon Welk of ''VideoGame/SmashmuckChampions'', owner and CEO of Welk Industries. Aside from creating and/or recruiting the more morally questionable Champions, he once unleashed a super-weapon his company had created onto unsuspecting Hub City so it'd spare his headquarters, Welk Tower.* Taiga Gigayama in ''VideoGame/ArmedPoliceBatrider''. He starts by "magnaminously" creating the artificial island of Zenovia as a refuge for people trying to escape Manhattan's skyrocketing crime rate. [[WretchedHive Only for Zenovia to become even worse]], as [=GiganTech=] proceeds [[OneNationUnderCopyright to take political power over the island]], and use its luckless captives to test out [[ArmsDealer black market weapons like Boredom]] and [[HumanResources supply energy for super-weapons like Discharge]].* ''VideoGame/TheLastFederation'', the entire species of Acutians. When dealing with them, instead of dealing with warlords, queen or some sort of government, player directly deals with the three most wealthy [=CEOs=].* ''Franchise/FiveNightsAtFreddys'': Fazbear Entertainment makes so many bizarre decisions that you'll end up wondering if they're actually evil [[HanlonsRazor or just woefully idiotic]] (the game never outright says which). Here are their "wonderful" decisions:** They never fix the animatronics when they start attacking the night watch, and even though their AI is so easy to fix and make them mostly harmless that a simple guard can do it, they prefer to keep hiring new guards as they die (as opposed to hiring a repairman), and even ''fire'' any guards who do fiddle with the animatronics' AI.** If any guards die, they'll hide the body, clean property and premises thoroughly (to the point of replacing carpets!), and only when the job's done do they inform relatives of the disappearance... by filing a missing person report.** The [[Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 second game]] shows that they won't put up warnings about breaking the robots apart (in this case, robotic parts contain sharp materials). Instead, they turn one of the animatronics into a "disassemble-and-reassemble-at-will" attraction for the children just because they were tired of putting it back together after they kept tearing it apart. You can see where this is going.** The [[Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3 third game]] reveals they used dangerous animatronic/suit hybrids that, if mishandled, would release the animatronic endoskeleton parts while a performer was still wearing the suit, injuring them severely. Said suits were so unsafe that even ''breathing'' on a springlock would moisten it enough to break loose, and their advice on how to deal with springlock failures amounted to, "Could you please bleed to death in ''this'' room? You're disturbing the customers." That being said, once a failure ''does'' occur they actually have the sense to immediately retire the suits to their hidden Safe Rooms... though they admit they don't care whether an employee wears one despite the dangers.** Said Safe Room is noted to be invisible to animatronics, and is present at every location. Great place for a security guard's office, right? Except that rather than destroy the unsafe springlock suits and repurpose the room to protect guards from the homicidal animatronics, the management instead decided to lock the suits in said room, build a false wall over the entrance, and [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain tell employees not to mention it to anyone]] (especially insurance representatives). They did this to ''every'' location's Safe Room.** Then [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSisterLocation Sister Location]] drops a bombshell with the reveal that [[spoiler:the Murderer (named William Afton) is a C.E.O. of a robotics company himself, and built the Funtime animatronics to kidnap/murder children.]] * The BigBad of ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyAdvancedWarfare'' is [[spoiler:Atlas Corporation CEO Jonathan Irons, who manipulated the world's governments to turn over key security operations to him via not informing anyone that an imminent strike from a known terrorist organization was planned even though he had knowledge of it beforehand]].* Tarion and Archos in ''VideoGame/TelepathTactics''. Both of them are callous, exploitative, money-grubbing sociopaths who enslave huge swaths of people and subject them to horrific working conditions in their mines. Here is their reaction to a worker who tried to use their own LoopholeAbuse against them and escape:-->'''Tarion:''' See to it that Igor's men find him and everyone who follows him; I want every last one of them dead.\\'''Archos:''' Yes, sir. Will Igor be taking the customary fee?\\'''Tarion:''' 10% of whatever he finds on them, and not a single aurom more. [[{{Greed}} I'll be counting everything he sends back personally.]]* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto2'': The entire Zaibatsu Corporation.* ''VideoGame/SystemShock'' has Edward Diego who was performing illegal bio experiments on Citadel Station. When TriOptimum workers were getting suspicious they sent men to arrest him and he blew them up with the station's defenses. He later becomes a servant to Shodan and the hacker has to fight him! Before that however, he gave the hacker an ultimatum to change Shodan's programming in order to get a military grade implant and be set free.* President Max Profitt Haltmann in ''VideoGame/KirbyPlanetRobobot''. True to his name, he goes to extreme lengths for the sake of his company's prosperity by exploiting planets (The latest target being Popstar, which naturally ends up being a big mistake) for their resources using his gigantic Access Ark spaceship. [[spoiler: He used to be a decent guy until he lost his daughter, which sent him off the deep end.]]* ''VideoGame/{{Syndicate}}'', the game series that lets you ''play'' a Corrupt Corporate Executive. There's not a lot of corruption in the original game (beyond using violence to take over territories from other companies), but the backstory makes it clear that most people are functionally slaves to the corporation in control of a particular region, thanks to implants in their heads receiving MindControl signals.** And in the 2012 Reboot, Jack Denham.* The Cogs, the various MechaMooks from ''VideoGame/ToontownOnline'', are either this or a YesMan. So stuck-up that actually laughing damages them.* As revealed in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'', John-Caleb Bradberton ran the Nuka-Cola Corporation this way. Rather than waste money on superior advertising campaigns and Research & Development to uphold their dominance over the market, they simply forced other soft drink companies into bankruptcy, stole their recipes, and rebranded those recipes as new types of Nuka-Cola. They were more than willing to use terrorist actions, including sabotaging advertising campaigns, mugging employees, stealing supplies, damaging machinery and even launch full-scale attacks on soda plants! The Far Harbor DLC contains a "Cola Wars" storyline you can follow by exploring the Vim Soda Pop factory, which reveals how Vim was under attack by Nuka-Cola saboteurs before the bombs dropped, and the Nuka-World DLC contains terminals confirming that almost every alternate flavor of Nuka-Cola is actually a rebranded, stolen recipe from some other company that Nuka-Cola put out of business. Not to mention the AmusementParkOfDoom he built that occasionally killed people due to him cutting corners for the sake of focusing on making weapons for the US government in exchange for them making him immortal.* ''VideoGame/ClarencesBigChance'': Parodied.-->'''Executive:''' Crawl around, little ants! One day, daddy's gonna stand all over your faces and make him bum-loads of sweet dough! You know it!* In ''[[VideoGame/AnnoDomini Anno 2070]]'', the Tycoons are a whole faction of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Corrupt Corporate Executives]]. Thor Strindberg is the worst of the lot, though. The next game in the series, Anno 2205, shows that they paid dearly in the long run, as [[MegaCorp Global Trust]] has gone ''bankrupt'' in the interim.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Visual Novels]]* Richard, the CEO of Nanotech in ''VisualNovel/BionicHeart'', bribes the police into pursuing Tanya (the main character's android love interest) as a fugitive, illegally manufactures androids, and worst of all [[spoiler:preserves people’s bodies so that he may place their brains into android bodies to do his bidding]].* The CEO of [[spoiler:Cradle Pharmaceuticals]] in ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors''. [[spoiler:Hongou recreated the Nonary Game to research telepathy, this time using children as the participants.]]* ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' brings us Redd White of Bluecorp in Case 1-2.** And Kane Bullard in Case 3-2 ... except he's kinda dead before you meet him. He was one of these before hand though. I'll pinkyswear!** ''Ace Attorney Investigations'' has [[spoiler:Ernest Amano, part of [[BigBad Quercus Alba]]'s smuggling ring, and a doting father [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney who tried to use his vast fortune to stop the police from finding evidence to convict his son Lance]] (who was indeed the guilty party).]]* ''VisualNovel/ShallWeDate'':** In ''[[VisualNovel/ShallWeDateNinjaAssassin Shall We Date?: Ninja Assassin]]'', Yui's father was killed because he was falsely accused of being in cahoots with some of these. There's a more or less straight-up example in story, though: [[spoiler: Willem, a Dutch ManipulativeBastard who is also [[DatingCatwoman one of Yui's prospect boyfriends]].]]** ''VisualNovel/ShallWeDateNinjaShadow'' has the greedy SmugSnake Saburo Suetsugu, alias the BigBad of the game and the richest man in Nagasaki. He is the one is behind the death of the PlayerCharacter's beloved older brother and is the target of her and many other's revenge desires. [[spoiler: And Willem from ''Ninja Shadow'' turns out to be his business partner.]][[/folder]]

[[folder:Web Animation]]* Benjamin Palmer [[spoiler:and Lear Dunham]] from ''WebAnimation/BrokenSaints''.* ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' mocks this trope with the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' franchise. Apparently the decades spent and trillions they've wasted trying to acquire the xenomorphs will somehow be balanced out by the amount they can make trying to sell them to the military industrial complex, assuming they can even be controlled.* Malcolm Hargrove from ''Machinima/RedVsBlue''; he is largely a background character until Season 12, where his company Charon Industries is financing a civil war on the planet Chorus in an effort to kill everyone so Charon can get full access to the vast quantities of alien technology on Chorus. Also overlaps with CorruptPolitician, as Hargrove is the chairman of the UNSC Oversight Subcommittee and launched an investigation into Project Freelancer which, while revealing some of the highly illegal activities Freelancer was engaged in, was partially a cover so Hargrove could seize some of the experimental technology the project was dealing with.* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Weiss Schnee's father, Jacques, is one. In Volume 1, Blake states that the Schnee Dust Company is infamous for its poor labor laws and questionable business partners. In Volume 2, Weiss admits that under her father's control, the company has gone in a "Morally grey" direction. In Volume 4's World of Remnant segment on the Schnee Dust Company, Qrow states that Jacques has made the SDC more profitable than ever, but at the cost of its soul, and employs in constant PR scams to stay in power.-->'''Qrow:''' Cheap labor, dangerous working conditions, doing whatever it takes to destroy the competition... Jacques Schnee doesn't care about people. He cares about winning.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Web Comics]]* Morguase in the modern arc of ''Webcomic/ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace'' is a mild example. [[http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/0997.htm And Arthur's trying to convince her to be even less of one]].* The shorthand for this in ''Webcomic/MandatoryRollerCoaster'' is old, bald, white men in navy blue suits.* Mr. Kornada, from ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'', is willing to use his (temporary) authority at Ecosystems Unlimited to pervert a program intended to address an issue with the robots on Jean purely for the sake of personal profit, even if the perversion would effectively wipe out over 450 million sapient (if robotic) beings and turn them into mindless automatons, and could well doom the colony that relies on those beings for {{terraforming}}.* Anyone that works for FOX in ''Webcomic/AnsemRetort'' but particularly Ansem and Vexen. They secured the rights to ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' '''just''' to remind people of how evil they are.* Any member of Tera Corp from ''Webcomic/AntiheroForHire'' almost certainly qualifies. However, it is worth noting that they have had a good amount of infighting. It would seem that one Corrupt Corporate Executive is not loyal to any other one.* The RIAA in ''Webcomic/QuentynQuinnSpaceRanger''..... who are the real life RIAA, [[UpToEleven drawn out to their logical conclusion.]] They were so avaricious that they took to scanning dying people's brains on the grounds that their ''memories'' contained copyrighted materials. It did not end well for them.* ''Webcomic/{{Vexxarr}}'' used "[[http://www.vexxarr.com/archive.php?seldate=121905 Is this the same Sony that..?]]" query for EvenEvilHasStandards joke.* The three directors of the Inter-Fiend Cooperation Commission in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' are all styled after executives of hip new startup companies, using coorporate buzzwords ('A community-based grassroots organization dedicated to building bridges between the diabolic, daemonic and demonic populations') and adding [[OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope disclaimers to their offers for souls]], and they are directors of the IFCC, complete with business cards. While they make for a good CrowningMomentOfFunny, they are still fiends [[DealWithTheDevil and will screw you over with their deals]].* ''Webcomic/HelpDesk'' has Mr Bunny, the Hoppy Computer Guy, Dark Lord of Microsoft {{Expy}} Ubersoft, along with his doubles at SCO and the RIAA. Being evil is what Ubersoft is ''about''. That's why they've never had more than one help desk employee authorized to actually help people at any time (and he quit).* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', several characters such as Mickey Mouse, WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, Tom the Cat. Homer Simpson and Charlie Brown [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2973 appear as leaders of different major crime families]], with the Devil as ruling Don of the Five Families.* In ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'', there's R.L., CEO of Herd Thinners, later joined by his wife (Kevin's ex) Angelique. Angelique seems to be the more corrupt of the two, as she did sell out the rest of the rabbits and is more scheming, while R.L.'s corruptness is tempered by, of all tropes, BrilliantButLazy: he shot down both world conquest and a racketeering scheme because it'd be too much work. (However, he's become a ''lot'' more corrupt now that [[spoiler: Kell has established a rival company.]] For what it's worth, one comic classified R.L as NeutralEvil while Angelique was classified as ChaoticEvil.** Ironically, the one time they ''were'' jailed (for overstating production), they were innocent of the crime (being set up by a disgruntled ex-employee as revenge for getting fired).* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfGynoStar'' features a shadowy cabal of corrupt corporate executives who plot to "eliminate" Gyno-Star for her meddling ways.* Every member of [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness Hereti Corp]] in ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' is one of these. Their company goal ''is'' world domination, after all.** And now there's brutal industrialist Crustro and MadScientist Dr. Nofun, of their own corporations.* Pierce from ''Webcomic/SturgeonsLaw'' is a former corporate executive now part of a corrupt company trying to take over the world. There’s a possibility that some of his namesake company's [[http://sturgeonslaw.net/comic/40-technical-difficulties/ products]] may contain babies.* Larry Scumthorpe from ''Webcomic/TheScumthorpeFiles'' is the founder of a large Tiberium Mining company that has NoOSHACompliance, polluting the water supply of [=SimNation=] and causing radioactive mutations among the population.* ''WebComic/QuestionableContent'' gave us Beatrice Chatham, Hannelore's mother and a woman who openly laments that the days when you could topple a MegaCorp with a few transsexual prostitutes and a Polaroid camera are over. * ''Webcomic/DrugsAndWires'' has Marilyn [[MeaningfulName Hope-Fokker]]. A grate-A vulture-capitalist, she acquires an agricultural facility in Nebraska and forces it's employees to have a bake-off to avoid having their jobs outsourced or downsized. When she's given a dish that meets her approval and [[HopeSpot the hopeful employee asks if he can keep his job]], she reveals that she's already sold the entire facility to a Taiwanese sexbot manufacturer and ''everyone'' is being terminated; the bake-off was just to scout employees for her new bakery subsidiary, [[KickTheDog since they'll be looking for a new job anyway]]. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment And this is all just in her introduction!]]* In ''Webcomic/TheLettersOfTheDevil'', Rita Carey is the CEO of Carey Investments, and the story starts when Cedric receives a letter saying her entire business is a Ponzi scheme.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Web Original]]* ''Roleplay/DinoAttackRPG'':** A flashback sequence reveals a story involving two such people going head-to-head. Uærlig Sindstorme, CEO of Mindstorms, Inc., decides to hire a team of small-time crooks to do dirty work against rival Dacta Corp. in order to lessen their competition. Meanwhile, Edward Korrupte, CEO of Dacta Corp., hires infamous assassin Silencia Venomosa to infiltrate Mindstorms, Inc. The results are... [[{{Understatement}} not pretty]].** Implied to be the case with Mr. Bonaparte. He prescribes his patients with "classified" medications, but we have not seen anyone at Napoleon XIV Mental Institution whose mental health has improved under his supervision. Napoleon XIV also has a history of security issues, and he is willing to lie about them to avoid bad press.** Dr. Walter Breen also has many traits of a Corrupt Corporate Executive, especially in his days as administrator of Brick League United. Like Edward Korrupte, he was willing to hire Silencia Venomosa to take down his competition.* ''Website/TheOnion'': "[[http://www.theonion.com/articles/layoffs-are-necessary-if-we-want-to-keep-the-light,26250/ 'Layoffs Are Necessary If We Want To Keep The Lights On,' Says CEO Halfway Through Tasting Menu]]"* Dr. Leonard J Alderman from ''WebVideo/LG15TheResistance'', who doesn't hesitate to steal, kidnap, or torture providing it furthers the company's aims. He claims to be doing the world a service, but it's pretty clear he's really only interested in making a profit.* The Hasbro Guy from the sequel to ''WebVideo/ThreeInTheAfternoon'', who's behind convincing Lucas and his corporations to mass-produce and sell lightsabers.* In ''Literature/ArcanaMagi'', Oryn Zentharis, Vyndor, and The Board of Directors of Avalon Tech Enterprises want to use the Sentinels to dominate the economy and control the world.* Darryl Walcutt, in the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse''. He's suspected of belonging to the Brotherhood of the Bell. His daughter Tansy is the supervillainess Solange, and we know he has illegally used her [[PsychicPowers Psi talents]] for corporate espionage. And probably {{blackmail}}.* Tim Sullivan from ''Literature/AvalonsReign'' runs the corporation Sullivan Detainment, specializing in private prisons. He has no problem ordering the death of a politician who questions his business practices. On a smaller scale, Dirk Chambers, the manager of one of those prisons, is a drug addict who actually arranges for said politician's demise.* In ''WebVideo/TheCartoonMan'', Simon is a small-time version of this, hoping to exploit Roy and Karen's findings for his own gain [[spoiler:at least until he becomes a straight-up DastardlyWhiplash cartoon villain, at which point his plans become much bigger.]]* In ''WebVideo/GameGrumps'', Danny is learning about the Zelda convention of cutting down plants to get random drops (typically money). After discussing it a bit, Dan realizes that [[http://youtu.be/a2Cbx8Uc_fI?t=12m10s he's starting to sound like this trope.]]-->'''Danny:''' Oh God, what kind of jaded person have I become? [gruff] Burn the flower beds, there might be money underneath!!* ''Podcast/KakosIndustries'' revolves around the heir to an EvilInc dedicated to "Doing Evil Better". Being this trope [[CardCarryingVillain and more]] is considered a necessary part of the job.* Charles-Antoine Donteuil, the creator of the game in which ''Franchise/{{Noob}}'' is set, qualifies for the money-making variant. One of his hidden maketing ploys is behind one of the major elments of the setting, to the point that knowledge of it becoming public is the cause of the first WhamEpisode of the story.* ''WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged''[='=]s version of Shouzou Yuuki is this in contrast with [[HonestCorporateExecutive his canon self]]. Not only is he an {{Abusive Parent|s}} who's willing to cut off his daughter Asuna's life support to avoid paying the medical bills (before his lawyers talked him out of the idea), but he's also a HorribleJudgeOfCharacter who decides to marry her off to the "[[SmugSnake nice]] [[VillainWithGoodPublicity gentleman]]" Nobuyuki Sugou so he can pay them instead.* ''WebVideo/TheAngryJoeShow'' has Corporate Commander, who's basically [[WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero Cobra Commander]] if he was the CEO of a video game company. He mainly partakes in developing overpriced, poorly-made games and locking content behind downloadable content and loot boxes.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Western Animation]]%%* Dr. Robotnik in ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog''.* Plutarkian Lawrence Lactavius Limburger from the original 1993 ''WesternAnimation/BikerMiceFromMars'' series disguises himself as one of these in order to fulfill his people's mission as PlanetLooters.** The revival had Ronaldo Rump, a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed parody of famed industrialist Creator/DonaldTrump, who teamed up with the BigBad Catatonians to further his business empire. He has a cousin named Sir Richard Brand Something.* Malory ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' is the head of private sector global espionage firm ISIS (International Secret Intelligence Service). In addition to being a BadBoss to her employees, including ''murdering'' the cleaning staff when they tried to unionize, she is supremely selfish to the extent where she does things that threaten (inter)national security if they are lucrative enough. Or if they merely please her, such as her decades-long affair with the head of the KGB. Her main rival Len Trexler, head of ODIN (Organization of Democratic Intelligence Networks) is very similar, and infatuated with her.* Ed Wuncler I from ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'', a billionaire business magnate who pretty much controls the town of Woodcrest. Taking advantage of [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney his huge net worth]] and [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections ties to various authority figures]], he's able to [[KarmaHoudini get away with doing anything illegal]]. His son Ed Wuncler II also qualifies as this.* ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'' had a minor recurring villain named Norbert Klerm, who runs a company called Comp U Klerm and at one point attempts to market a series of robots designed to annihilate Star Command.* Looten Plunder, from ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'', was of this type. He was also the only villain on the show whose motive for pillaging the Earth was all that plausible, most of the others having fantastic motives (Duke Nukem physically thrived on radiation) or doing it out of sheer malice.** Hoggish Greedly was of the slovenly CorruptHick type. He didn't seem show outright malice for the environment, he usually just didn't care about it, and his motives were centered in obtaining vast amounts of money and resources as fast as possible.** Sly Sludge was a corrupt exec who focused on waste disposal (that is, dumping absurd amounts of toxic waste and garbage wherever), and was sleazy and sneaky. He often ran operations that would shrink garbage or compact it or incinerate it, but they either were fake or they backfired severely.** About 50% of Dr. Blight's evil schemes revolved around making herself famous, rich or preferably both, including more than once when she teams up with one of the above characters for some malignant corporate venture. She usually supplies the hyper-advanced tech they need to do their thing. The other 50%, on the other hand, were messing up the environment for the heck of it.* Mr. Boss from ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor''. (To make this ironic, three Sector V operatives (Numbahs Four, Three, and Two) have parents who work for his company, while [[spoiler: Numbuh 86 is his ''daughter''.]])* ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse''** Derek Powers from the first season of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' typifies this trope. His son, Paxton, who later takes over his company, is pretty corrupt too, but is not nearly as competent as a villain. ** ComicBook/LexLuthor in both ''WesternAnimation/RubySpearsSuperman'' and '' WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' as well.** Mercy Graves takes over [=LexCorp=] when Luthor is outed as a criminal in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', and manages to bring it back into solvency by being not ''quite'' as corrupt as Luthor (or possibly just less maniacal).** Roland Daggett from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''.** Ferris Boyle (also from ''Batman'') is one of these as well; being responsible for turning Victor Fries into Mr. Freeze and supposedly killing his wife, Nora. Bonus for being voiced by Creator/MarkHamill, before he became ComicBook/TheJoker.** Grant Walker (again from ''Batman''), who blackmails Mr. Freeze into trying to make him immortal.** Maxie Zeus (Batman again) is also depicted as a corporate executive who... well... [[SanitySlippage went a little nuts]] after his stock crashed. The reason he became insane was because his success in crime made him think he was untouchable and godlike.** Edwin Alva, Sr., the head of Alva Industries from ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'' plays with this. While he's quite crotchety and has a grudge against Static, he rarely targets the young hero. His only redeeming quality is remorse for how he treated his son.* WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck's foe the Liquidator was once Bud Fludd, the owner of a bottled water company who was poisoning his competitor's water supply. An accident turned him into a water controlling supervillain, but his old traits stick around; for example, he once flooded the city so he could sell "Liquidator Brand life rafts" at a ridiculously inflated price.* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory''** The episode "Chubby Cheese" revealed that the head of the titular restaurant chain was actually using Chubby Cheese's as a front for amassing lots of money and taking over the world.** The TV movie ''WesternAnimation/EgoTrip'' showed that in the future, Mandark would take over the company he and Dexter worked for and eventually use its resources to take over the world and rule all of humanity.* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Dilbert}}'' when the title character and Wally become part owners of their company they meet the other [=CEOs=]. Reading back the minutes of the last meeting one informs them that "we gave each other stock options, discussed ways to ignore the needs of others and Hamilton had a racial joke."* Bob Santino from ''WesternAnimation/{{Dogstar}}''. He was willing to destroy every dog on Earth so he could make a profit selling his robotic dogs.* Flintheart Glomgold, Scrooge's rival from ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' (actually created by Creator/CarlBarks in [[AdaptationDisplacement the comics]]). He serves as an EvilCounterpart to Scrooge; Scrooge is also greedy, but unlike Glomgold, he's honest. The version of him is ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' might be worse, considering his MurderIsTheBestSolution tendencies.* HP, the Head Pixie from ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' He's voiced by Ben Stein (as are the other pixies) and has got to be ''the most boring creature'' in Fairyworld.* Carter Pewdterschmidt on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''. Originally, he was just an idiotic ManChild who doesn't understand the world outside of business. Post-cancellation, he's just outright evil.* The ''WesternAnimation/FilmationsGhostbusters'' episode "The Battle for Ghost Command" features a man who illegally dumps toxic waste at the city's sewers, unknowingly attracting ghosts until the Ghostbusters discovered the truth.* Armando Gutierrez from ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' knew about the flaw that gave Dexter powers but refused to recall his product because it would affect sales. He is both voiced by and obviously [[InkSuitActor physically modeled after]] Ricardo Montalban. His ambitions later grow beyond profit margins when he decides to exploit the flaw so he can become a powerful Freakazoid too.* Mr. Twitchell from the ''WesternAnimation/FrostyTheSnowman'' sequel ''Frosty Returns''. He plans to use his product Summer Wheeze to eliminate snow forever and doesn't care about how his actions would affect the environment. He even punishes one of his subordinates for questioning his ethics by dumping her through a trap door.* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':** The villain known as "Mom" is also a CCE trying to take over the world, who masquerades as a [[VillainWithGoodPublicity sweet, kindly old lady in public]].** "That Guy", an 80s executive [[NoNameGiven whose name we never learn]] (the script for the episode referred to him as "Steve Castle"), was a comic exaggeration of this trope.** Parodied with Leo Wong, who is a compendium of every criticism ever levelled at corporations.* The Crimson Twins Tomax and Xamot are depicted this way in ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'', since they are affiliated with the terrorist organization Cobra and they use their company Extensive Enterprises to give Cobra funding.* "Batteries Not Included", the first episode of the ''WesternAnimation/GarbagePailKidsCartoon'', had the Garbage Pail Kids fight the Funbusters, who attempted to destroy every toy in America by creating and distributing batteries that would ruin any toy that used them.* David Xanatos from ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}''. He is, however, AffablyEvil, fond of PragmaticVillainy, and a loving family man so he's not as extreme as most examples.** Demona and Thailog become these when they create Nightstone Unlimited, under the assumed identities of Dominique Destine (who is never seen at night) and Alexander Thailog (who is never seen in person).* {{Subverted|Trope}} in the ''WesternAnimation/GrandmaGotRunOverByAReindeer'' [[ChristmasEpisode holiday special]]: [[MeaningfulName Austin Bucks]] is misguided and the BigBad's original plot involves making a business deal with him, but he doesn't know about any of the villainous things she's done to achieve it and proves to be quite ethical.* The ''WesternAnimation/GravedaleHigh'' episode "Save Our School" had a hotel owner who calls herself The Empress, who wants to put a chain of her hotel where the school is, and even hires a health inspector in order to condemn it so she can have it torn down.* Stavros Garkos, the main villain of the animated series ''WesternAnimation/{{Hurricanes}}'', is the head of Garkos Enterprises and is usually seeking for dishonest ways to increase his wealth and/or turn his soccer team into world champions.** The series also introduced a villain named Douglas Fir, whose character is similar to Garkos.** Also in that series, when Napper Thompson's uncle died and left his fortune to him on the condition Napper never plays soccer again, Napper became the target of two villains who wanted to get the inheritance. One of the villains was the uncle's former business partner. [[spoiler:Napper lost the inheritance but fortunately it was revealed neither villain was the appointed next heir.]]* Eric Raymond from ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' starts the series owning half of Jerrica's music company and does everything he can to sabotage Jem and the Holograms or stop them from beating the Misfits, even if his methods put people's lives at risk.* Lucius on ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes''. Though, considering that [[MegaCorp Misery Inc. already runs the town anyway]], he's seen more as a dictator.* Master Blaster in ''WesternAnimation/KiddVideo'' is an evil disc producer, coherent with the music-themed nature of the show. He wants to make the eponymous band his slaves.* Interestingly, in ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'', Drakken's two plans that came closest to succeeding involved becoming this, first over Bueno Nacho, and the second over Hank's Gourmet Cupcakes (everyone associated Dr. D with shampoo for some reason).* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'':** Hiroshi Sato framed a competitor with association to the Equalists.** Season two has Varrick, who while an ally of the protagonists supposedly deals with the triads, instigates a war with the Northern Water Tribe because their blockade is ruining his business, is not above bribing his way out of a situation and engages in war profiteering. [[spoiler:He's also revealed to be escalating the war for profit as well as secretly bankrupting Asami's corporation so that he can buy it out from her.]] Despite this, he's not evil so much as amoral and he's usually willing to help Team Avatar if it suits his needs (or just because he likes them).* W.C. Moore in ''WesternAnimation/LittleElvisJonesAndTheTruckstoppers'' owns the town the show is set in, and takes time out of his day to use his [[{{Unobtainium}} Berkonium]] [[EmpathicWeapon marble]] to [[KickTheDog beat kids at marbles and take theirs for himself]].* Fisher Biskit from ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012'' [[DownplayedTrope initially isn't cartoonishly corrupt]], but he is the owner of a large PredatoryBusiness that initially threatens to put the titular shop out of business and in the episode "Heart of Parkness" apparently has no problems harboring an endangered species of snake, or in "Littlest Bigfoot" making a pet shampoo that requires an entire tree to produce one drop. [[AlphaBitch His]] [[LonelyRichKid daughters]] were much worse, at least prior to his characterization in "A Night at the Pawza", where he tries to prevent a pet hotel from opening long enough for him to open his own.* Charles Foster Ofdensen of ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'', who is the [[ManBehindTheMan Man Behind the Band]], willing to have people killed and/or tortured (and sometimes [[BattleButler doing it himself]]) for the sake of Dethklok's (his "Bread and Butter" by his own words) career.** Somewhat subverted, as there is actually a greater evil out there, The Tribunal. Ofdensen's just preventing them from killing Dethklok.** James Grishnack, producer of Dethklok's movie "Blood Ocean" in Season 1, has a fitting line for this trope: "I've been fucking over celebrities since you were all shitting in diapers!"** Season 3 has Damien. [[spoiler: He was the son of the executive that first signed Dethklok. He disliked death metal, and had a grudge against Nathan Explosion for punching him. Upon taking power from his ailing father, he cut off Dethklok's finances and shut down a concert in order to force Dethklok into signing a new contract, one that would give ''him'' the lion's share of profit. Only the [[BigDamnHeroes timely intervention]] [[FakingTheDead of the thought-dead Ofdensen]] stopped him, and he got punched by Nathan again for trying to attack Ofdensen.]]* Magnacat in ''WesternAnimation/MonsterAllergy'' appears as this in his human persona.* Some shorts feature Bluto and ''WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}'' as business rivals. For example, one had the two of them competing for a military contract to build warships.** In the Al Brodax short "Spinach Shortage", Bluto {{Expy}} Brutus monopolized spinach and was withholding it to raise prices. While it's anyone's guess if he did anything illegal to obtain his spinach monopoly, it's still illegal to abuse monopoly even if it was obtained fair and square.* Cyril Sneer from ''WesternAnimation/TheRaccoons'', but the trope is gradually subverted as the series progresses as he eventually grows a conscience and his principled son, Cedric, eventually takes over the business as a partner.** Milton Midas on the other hand, is a much more straight example, as his actions of disposing toxic waste cause a lake to become contaminated.* Hannibal [=McFist=] from ''WesternAnimation/RandyCunninghamNinthGradeNinja'', who is one of [[SealedEvilInACan The Sorcerer]]'s CoDragons and also a VillainWithGoodPublicity as a result of most of Norrisville being {{Genre Blind|ness}}; namely, no one seems to bat an eyelash at his company's headquarters being a giant black and green pyramid in the middle of town.* [[PunnyName Rich Buckner]] from the Thanksgiving episode of ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow''. When his [[PatrioticFervor ultra-patriotic]] Thanksgiving song loses out to [[AwesomeMusic/RegularShow Mordecai and Rigby's song]] in a contest to obtain an actual turducken (born every million years), he steals the turducken anyway because it contains a golden wishbone that grants actual wishes, which he intends to use to obtain the rights to Thanksgiving. Mordecai and Rigby stop him in the episode's definitive [[Awesome/RegularShow Moment of Awesome]].* Gart Default from ''WesternAnimation/RobotAndMonster'', who cares little for the safety of his employees or [[NoOSHACompliance the operational state of the factory they work in]] and frequently abuses and mocks his younger brother. His [[TheRival rival]] Pendulum Depot also qualifies, being a ManipulativeBastard who tries to get the Default family's blinking light recipe with Robot's help, but ends up getting OutGambitted.* ''WesternAnimation/RoswellConspiracies'' has Hanek, the head of a company called Intracom, and his rival Verhooven, both of whom are vampires.* Angelica takes the role of one in one ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episode. The hallway to her office has portraits of many Corrupt Corporate Executives (which includes a WickedWitch and a devil). Her office looks like it's located in Hell, her pigtails are devil horns, and she chases Tommy and Chuckie with [[NightmareFuel insanely creepy robot businessmen]].-->'''Tommy:''' Boss Angelica...-->'''Angelica:''' Yes?-->'''Tommy:''' You don't have to be so mean to us...-->'''Angelica:''' Oh, I don't, eh? Well, let me tell YOU something! If I wanna be mean, I CAN be mean! Know why? ...CAUSE I'M THE BOSS! I CAN DO ANYTHING I WANT! AND IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, I CAN HAVE YOU '''FIRED!'''* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''** Mr. Burns. He's dumped radioactive waste at public parks and playgrounds, sold weapons to the Nazis, stolen a trillion dollars in foreign aid money from the U.S. government, and (most famously) built a giant sun-blocking device to keep Springfield shrouded in perpetual darkness, all so his electric company could have a truly ''complete'' monopoly over the town's energy supply.-->'''Mr. Burns''': Listen, Spielbergo, [[Film/SchindlersList Schindler]] and I are like peas in a pod! We're both factory owners, we both made shells for the Nazis, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint but mine]] ''[[ComicallyMissingThePoint worked, DAMMIT!]]''** The Rich Texan. He once owned a logging company and once attempted to cut down Springfield's tallest Redwood tree, until his company was destroyed by the gigantic tree after it slid down a hill.** Russ Cargill from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie''. He owns the company that made the dome he trapped Springfield in.* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':** The big-guy-versus-little-guy version is subverted in the "Gnomes" episode. Tweek's dad's coffee shop is threatened by the imminent arrival of a Starbucks-esque chain, and he conscripts the kids into encouraging the town to prevent this. However, the kids learn from the Underpants Gnomes that successful corporations often get that way because they have a better product. When the townsfolk actually try the chain's coffee, even Tweek's dad agrees it's far superior to what he was making, and the town relents.** Much more recently is a evil, sadistic, foul-mouthed Mickey Mouse in the ''{{Series/JONAS}}'' episode who plays this trope straight.** Several Native Americans owning a large casino who threatened to tear down South Park to make way for a highway also count.** CEO of Walmart is a subversion. He seems corrupt at first, but is in fact [[spoiler:a slave to [[EldritchAbomination Walmart]] itself]].** "Chef-Aid:" "I am above the law!"** "The Entity": The airline industry* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'', Norman Osborn, [[VillainWithGoodPublicity respected]] Oscorp CEO, retains this role from his comic book counterpart.* Dan Halen from ''WesternAnimation/{{Squidbillies}}'' is not just a corrupt executive but an embodiment of pure evil whose company was founded to spread misery and death, going so far as to release a product called the Baby Death Trap.** That was mostly so he could sue people referring to one of his other products as a "baby death trap", presumably under the guise of trademark protection (since the original product was probably too dangerous for a libel suit to hold up in court).* Mr. Krabs from ''[[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' used to be a lovable example of this, before he passed the MoralEventHorizon and did things like ''[[{{Flanderization}} obsess over a penny]]'' and try to ''[[DrivenToSuicide drive his rival to suicide]]'' for no reason.* [[Disney/TheJungleBook Shere Khan]] is recast as one of these in ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin''.%%* ''WesternAnimation/TeamoSupremo'''s Will 2 Wynn.* Oroku Saki/The Shredder from ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'' series is one of these. His supposed "office building" in New York is also the main headquarters of the Foot Clan. His adopted daughter, Karai, later inherits his position as CEO of his public corporation as well as head of the Foot Clan during his banishment at the end of one season.* Montana Max from ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' is a teenage version of this. He owns a number of environmentally-unfriendly factories that make frivolous things such as elevator buttons and donut holes, which Plucky Duck often tries to stop as his superhero alter-ego, the Toxic Revenger.* Porter C. Powell from ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated''. Just ask Sari Sumdac, who found herself kicked out of her own home as part of Powell's ''extremely'' hostile takeover of Sumdac Systems. He immediately rehires the clearly insane Henry Masterson, who had previously threatened to cause a nuclear meltdown on national TV, so he can break into the military market that Professor Sumdac [[TechnologicalPacifist kept the company out of]]. He then allows Masterson to steal Sentinel Prime's body and bails him out when he gets caught, on the basis that [[InhumanableAlienRights alien robots don't have rights]]. Don't worry, it all comes back to bite him.-->'''Powell:''' There's no room for sentiment in business.* Mr. Big from ''WesternAnimation/WordGirl'', who is an evil executive who had a tendency to brainwash people.* ''WesternAnimation/YogisGang'': Mr. Hothead of Hothead Enterprises. He has a device that turns people into hotheads and uses it on Yogi's Gang as part of a plan to force Cindy to sell her dude ranch. He later sabotages the ranch's water supply. * The newest version of ''WesternAnimation/YoohooAndFriends'' has the main characters start as this prior to their KarmicTransformation.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Other]]* Any reference to the concept of "[[TheGildedAge Robber barons ]]."[[/folder]]----